HD 43848 is a 9th magnitude K-type subgiant star located approximately 123 light-years away in the constellation of Columba. The star is less massive than the Sun.
Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
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Constellation | Columba |
Right ascension | 06h 16m 31.36330s[1] |
Declination | –40° 31′ 54.7121″[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 8.65[2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | K2 IV[3] |
Variable type | 5.58[2] |
Astrometry | |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: +122.02[1] mas/yr Dec.: +198.32[1] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 26.42 ± 0.78 mas[1] |
Distance | 123 ± 4 ly (38 ± 1 pc) |
Details | |
Mass | 0.94 ± 0.06[2] M☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 4.54 ± 0.04[2] cgs |
Temperature | 5,161 ± 41[2] K |
Age | 3.7 ± 1.7[2] Gyr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
Exoplanet Archive | data |
On October 29, 2008, radial velocity measurements made with the MIKE echelle spectrograph on the 6.5-m Magellan II (Clay) telescope revealed the presence of a companion of at least 25 Jupiter masses orbiting the star.[4] Initially thought to be a brown dwarf, astrometric measurements reveal that the true mass of the object is 120+167
−43 Jupiter masses, implying that it is likely to be a red dwarf star.[5]