Astronomy:Xi Sculptoris
| Observation data Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Sculptor |
| Right ascension | 01h 01m 18.27548s[1] |
| Declination | −38° 54′ 59.5033″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.59[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | K1 III[3] |
| B−V color index | +1.185±0.008[2] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −31.1±2.9[4] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: +66.892[1] mas/yr Dec.: +49.891[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 6.6662 ± 0.0829[1] mas |
| Distance | 489 ± 6 ly (150 ± 2 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | −0.39[2] |
| Details | |
| Radius | 22.29+1.18 −1.74[1] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 181.8±2.8[1] L☉ |
| Temperature | 4,489+186 −114[1] K |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
Xi Sculptoris, Latinized from ξ Sculptoris, is a solitary[6] orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Sculptor, near the southern constellation boundary with Phoenix. It is just visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.59.[2] The distance to Xi Sculptoris is approximately 489 light years based on parallax, while it is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −31 km/s.[4] It has an absolute magnitude of −0.39.[2]
This object is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K1 III,[3] which indicates it has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core then expanded and cooled off the main sequence. At present it has 22[1] times the girth of the Sun. It is radiating 182 times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,489 K.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 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 2.4 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.
- ↑ 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, Bibcode: 2012A&A...546A..61D.
- ↑ "ksi Scl". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=ksi+Scl.
- ↑ 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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