Astronomy:Lambda2 Tucanae

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Short description: Binary star in the constellation Tucana


Lambda2 Tucanae
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Tucana
Right ascension  00h 55m 00.31129s[1]
Declination −69° 31′ 37.5025″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) +5.45[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K2 III[3]
B−V color index +1.10[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+5.1±2.8[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +6.842[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −43.735[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)14.6214 ± 0.0817[1] mas
Distance223 ± 1 ly
(68.4 ± 0.4 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)+1.29[5]
Details[2]
Mass1.75 M
Radius9.84+0.22
−0.42
[1] R
Luminosity39.2±0.3[1] L
Surface gravity (log g)2.74 cgs
Temperature4,605+101
−52
[1] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.07±0.14 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)3.14 km/s
Other designations
λ2 Tuc, CD–70°40, FK5 34, HD 5457, HIP 4293, HR 270, SAO 248281[6]
Database references
SIMBADdata

Lambda2 Tucanae is a solitary[7] star in the southern constellation of Tucana. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.45.[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 14.6 mas as seen from Earth, it is located around 223 light years from the Sun. At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.09 due to interstellar dust.[2]

This is an orange-hued K-type giant star on the red giant branch,[2] with a stellar classification of K2 III.[3] It has an estimated 1.75[2] times the mass of the Sun but after evolving away from the main sequence it has expanded to 9.8 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 39 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,605 K.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 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 2.4 2.5 2.6 Jones, M. I. et al. (December 2011), "Study of the impact of the post-MS evolution of the host star on the orbits of close-in planets. I. Sample definition and physical properties", Astronomy & Astrophysics 536: 7, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201117887, A71, Bibcode2011A&A...536A..71J. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Houk, Nancy (1979), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars, 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode1978mcts.book.....H. 
  4. 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. "lam Tuc". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=lam+Tuc. 
  7. 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.