Astronomy:Theta Trianguli Australis

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Short description: Star in the constellation Triangulum Australe
Theta Trianguli Australis
Theta Trianguli Australis.jpg

Credit: An artistic illustration of Theta Trianguli Australis
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Triangulum Australe
Right ascension  16h 35m 44.81924s[1]
Declination −65° 29′ 43.4478″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) +5.50[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type G8-K0 III[3]
U−B color index +0.73[2]
B−V color index +0.93[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)9.6±2.8[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +35.117[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −29.356[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)9.7682 ± 0.0849[1] mas
Distance334 ± 3 ly
(102.4 ± 0.9 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)+0.40[5]
Details
Radius11[6] R
Luminosity79[7] L
Surface gravity (log g)2.81±0.08[8] cgs
Temperature5,039±31[8] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.05±0.03[8] dex
Other designations
θ TrA, CPD−65° 3331, FK5 3312, HD 148890, HIP 81252, HR 6151, SAO 253614[9]
Database references
SIMBADdata

θ Trianguli Australis, Latinized as Theta Trianguli Australis, is a single[10] star in the southern constellation of Triangulum Australe. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.50.[2] The star is located about 334 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +10 km/s.[4]

This is an evolved G/K-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8-K0 III.[3] The interferometry-measured angular diameter of the primary component is 0.99±0.01 mas,[11] which, at its estimated distance, equates to a physical radius of about 11 times the radius of the Sun.[6] The star is radiating 79[7] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,039 K.[8]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Johnson, H. L. et al. (1966), "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars", Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory 4 (99): 99, Bibcode1966CoLPL...4...99J. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Houk, N.; Cowley, A. P. (1975), University of Michigan Catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars, 1, Ann Arbor, MI: Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, pp. 452, Bibcode1975mcts.book.....H. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Eilers, A.-C. (October 2012), "Radial velocities for the HIPPARCOS-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project", Astronomy & Astrophysics 546: 14, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219219, A61, Bibcode2012A&A...546A..61D. 
  5. Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Lang, Kenneth R. (2006), Astrophysical formulae, Astronomy and astrophysics library, 1 (3rd ed.), Birkhäuser, ISBN 3-540-29692-1, https://books.google.com/books?id=OvTjLcQ4MCQC&pg=PA41 . The radius (R*) is given by:
    [math]\displaystyle{ \begin{align} 2\cdot R_* & = \frac{(10^{-3}\cdot 102.4\cdot 0.99)\ \text{AU}}{0.0046491\ \text{AU}/R_{\bigodot}} \\ & \approx 21.8\cdot R_{\bigodot} \end{align} }[/math]
  7. 7.0 7.1 McDonald, I. et al. (2012), "Fundamental Parameters and Infrared Excesses of Hipparcos Stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 427 (1): 343–57, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21873.x, Bibcode2012MNRAS.427..343M. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Alves, S. et al. (April 2015), "Determination of the spectroscopic stellar parameters for 257 field giant stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 448 (3): 2749–2765, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv189, Bibcode2015MNRAS.448.2749A. 
  9. "tet TrA". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=tet+TrA. 
  10. 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, Bibcode2008MNRAS.389..869E. 
  11. Richichi, A. et al. (February 2005), "CHARM2: An updated Catalog of High Angular Resolution Measurements", Astronomy and Astrophysics 431 (2): 773–777, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20042039, Bibcode2005A&A...431..773R.