Astronomy:HD 79917
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| Observation data Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Vela |
| Right ascension | 09h 15m 36.7081s[1] |
| Declination | −38° 34′ 11.7903″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | +4.92[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | K1III[3] |
| B−V color index | 1.084±0.052[2] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | +1.62±0.14[1] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −71.004±0.148[1] mas/yr Dec.: −10.527±0.186[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 14.3202 ± 0.1227[1] mas |
| Distance | 228 ± 2 ly (69.8 ± 0.6 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | +0.73[2] |
| Details | |
| Radius | 12.63+0.23 −0.36[1] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 66.8±0.7[1] L☉ |
| Temperature | 4,643+69 −43[1] K |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
HD 79917 is a single[5] star in the southern constellation of Vela. It has the Bayer designation l (lowercase L) Velorum, while HD 79917 is the star's identifier from the Henry Draper Catalogue. The star has an orange hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.92.[2] It is located at a distance of approximately 228 light-years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +1.6 km/s.[1]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K1III,[3] having exhausted is core hydrogen then cooled and expanded off the main sequence. It has 12.6 times the girth of the Sun and is radiating 67 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,643 K.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode: 2012AstL...38..331A
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Houk, Nancy (1979), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars, 3, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode: 1982mcts.book.....H.
- ↑ "HD 79917". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=HD+79917.
- ↑ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 389 (2): 869–879, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x, Bibcode: 2008MNRAS.389..869E.
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