Summary
HD 40409 is a suspected astrometric binary[6] star system in the southern constellation of Dorado. It is a faint system but visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.65.[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 36.96 mas,[1] it is located 88 light years away from the Sun. It is moving further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of +25 km/s.[2] The system has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at the rate of 0.57 arcseconds per year along a position angle of 14.51°.[7]
| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Dorado |
| Right ascension | 05h 54m 06.05633s[1] |
| Declination | −63° 05′ 23.1963″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 4.65[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | K2 III[3] |
| B−V color index | 1.022±0.045[2] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | +25.1±0.8[2] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: +118.57[1] mas/yr Dec.: +572.93[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 36.9551 ± 0.2499 mas[1] |
| Distance | 88.3 ± 0.6 ly (27.1 ± 0.2 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | 2.56[2] |
| Details[4] | |
| Mass | 1.12 M☉ |
| Radius | 4.79 R☉ |
| Luminosity | 11.2 L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 3.27 cgs |
| Temperature | 4,858 K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | +0.07 dex |
| Age | 7.91 Gyr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
Based on the stellar classification of K2 III assigned by Gray et al. (2006),[3] the visible component is a K-type giant star. In contrast, Keenan and McNeil (1989) gave it a somewhat less evolved classification of K2 III–IV.[8] It is about eight billion years old with 12% more mass than the Sun, and has expanded to 4.8 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 11 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,858 K.[4]
References edit
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- ^ a b c d e f Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters, 38 (5): 331, arXiv:1108.4971, Bibcode:2012AstL...38..331A, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, S2CID 119257644.
- ^ a b Gray, R. O.; et al. (July 2006), "Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 pc-The Southern Sample", The Astronomical Journal, 132 (1): 161–170, arXiv:astro-ph/0603770, Bibcode:2006AJ....132..161G, doi:10.1086/504637, S2CID 119476992.
- ^ a b Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Liu, Fan; Wang, Liang; Casagrande, Luca; Johnson, John Asher; Tinney, C. G. (July 2016), "The Pan-Pacific Planet Search. V. Fundamental Parameters for 164 Evolved Stars", The Astronomical Journal, 152 (1): 15, arXiv:1605.00323, Bibcode:2016AJ....152...19W, doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/1/19, S2CID 55991800, 19.
- ^ "HD 40409". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
- ^ 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, arXiv:0806.2878, Bibcode:2008MNRAS.389..869E, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x, S2CID 14878976.
- ^ Bakos, Gáspár Á.; et al. (July 2002), "Revised Coordinates and Proper Motions of the Stars in the Luyten Half-Second Catalog", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 141 (1): 187–193, arXiv:astro-ph/0202164, Bibcode:2002ApJS..141..187B, doi:10.1086/340115, S2CID 36667868.
- ^ Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 71: 245, Bibcode:1989ApJS...71..245K, doi:10.1086/191373.