42 Leonis Minoris
Star in the constellation Leo Minor
42 Leonis Minoris (42 LMi) is a solitary,[ 11] bluish-white hued star located in the northern constellation Leo Minor . It has a visual apparent magnitude of 5.35,[ 2] allowing it to be faintly seen with the naked eye . Parallax measurements place it at a distance of 412 light years .[ 1] The object has a heliocentric radial velocity of 12 km/s ,[ 5] indicating that it is drifting away from the Solar System .
42 LMi has a general stellar classification of B9 V,[ 3] indicating that it is an ordinary B-type main-sequence star . However, Cowley et al. (1969) gave a slightly cooler class of A1 Vn,[ 12] indicating that it is instead an A-type main-sequence star with 'nebulous' (broad) absorption lines due to rapid rotation. Nevertheless, it has 2.77 times the mass of the Sun and a radius of 3.3 R ☉ .[ 7] It radiates at 107 times the luminosity of the Sun [ 8] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 10,703 K .[ 7] Its high luminosity and slightly enlarged diameter suggests that the object might be evolved. Like most hot stars, 42 LMi spins rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 145 km/s .[ 10]
There are two optical companions located near this star. BD+31°2181 is a 7th magnitude K2 giant star separated 146″ away along a position angle of 174° .[ 13] An 8th magnitude companion has been detected at a distance of over 400 arcseconds along a position angle of 92° .[ 13] Both have no relation to 42 LMi and is just moving with it by coincidence.
An X-ray emission with a luminosity of 278.2× 1020 W has been detected around the object. A-type stars are not expected to emmit X-rays, so it must be coming from an unseen companion.[ 14]
References
^ a b c d Brown, A. G. A. ; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2021). "Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 649 : A1. arXiv :2012.01533 . Bibcode :2021A&A...649A...1G . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/202039657 . S2CID 227254300 . (Erratum: doi :10.1051/0004-6361/202039657e ) . Gaia EDR3 record for this source at VizieR .
^ a b Høg, E.; Fabricius, C.; Makarov, V. V.; Urban, S.; Corbin, T.; Wycoff, G.; Bastian, U.; Schwekendiek, P.; Wicenec, A. (March 2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics . 355 : L27 – L30 . Bibcode :2000A&A...355L..27H . ISSN 0004-6361 .
^ a b Osawa, Kiyoteru (July 1959). "Spectral Classification of 533 B8-A2 Stars and the Mean Absolute Magnitude of a0 V Stars" . The Astrophysical Journal . 130 : 159. Bibcode :1959ApJ...130..159O . doi :10.1086/146706 . eISSN 1538-4357 . ISSN 0004-637X .
^ a b Crawford, D. L. (February 1963). "U, b, v, and Hβ Photometry for the Bright B8- and B9-TYPE Stars" . The Astrophysical Journal . 137 : 530. Bibcode :1963ApJ...137..530C . doi :10.1086/147526 . eISSN 1538-4357 . ISSN 0004-637X .
^ a b Kharchenko, N.V.; Scholz, R.-D.; Piskunov, A.E.; Röser, S.; Schilbach, E. (November 2007). "Astrophysical supplements to the ASCC-2.5: Ia. Radial velocities of ~55000 stars and mean radial velocities of 516 Galactic open clusters and associations" . Astronomische Nachrichten . 328 (9): 889– 896. arXiv :0705.0878 . Bibcode :2007AN....328..889K . doi :10.1002/asna.200710776 . ISSN 0004-6337 .
^ Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (May 2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters . 38 (5): 331– 346. arXiv :1108.4971 . Bibcode :2012AstL...38..331A . doi :10.1134/S1063773712050015 . eISSN 1562-6873 . ISSN 1063-7737 . S2CID 119257644 .
^ a b c d e Stassun, Keivan G.; et al. (9 September 2019). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List" . The Astronomical Journal . 158 (4): 138. arXiv :1905.10694 . Bibcode :2019AJ....158..138S . doi :10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467 . eISSN 1538-3881 .
^ a b McDonald, I.; Zijlstra, A. A.; Watson, R. A. (15 June 2017). "Fundamental parameters and infrared excesses of Tycho–Gaia stars" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 471 (1): 770– 791. arXiv :1706.02208 . Bibcode :2017MNRAS.471..770M . doi :10.1093/mnras/stx1433 . eISSN 1365-2966 . ISSN 0035-8711 .
^ a b Gullikson, Kevin; Kraus, Adam; Dodson-Robinson, Sarah (25 July 2016). "The Close Companion Mass-ratio Distribution of Intermediate-mass Stars" . The Astronomical Journal . 152 (2): 40. arXiv :1604.06456 . Bibcode :2016AJ....152...40G . doi :10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/40 . eISSN 1538-3881 .
^ a b Dworetsky, Michael M. (November 1974). "Rotational Velocities of A0 Stars" . The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series . 28 : 101. Bibcode :1974ApJS...28..101D . doi :10.1086/190312 . eISSN 1538-4365 . ISSN 0067-0049 .
^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (11 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 . eISSN 1365-2966 . ISSN 0035-8711 .
^ Cowley, A.; Cowley, C.; Jaschek, M.; Jaschek, C. (April 1969). "A study of the bright stars. I. A catalogue of spectral classifications" . The Astronomical Journal . 74 : 375. Bibcode :1969AJ.....74..375C . doi :10.1086/110819 . ISSN 0004-6256 .
^ a b Mason, Brian D.; Wycoff, Gary L.; Hartkopf, William I.; Douglass, Geoffrey G.; Worley, Charles E. (December 2001). "The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog" . The Astronomical Journal . 122 (6): 3466– 3471. Bibcode :2001AJ....122.3466M . doi :10.1086/323920 . ISSN 0004-6256 .
^ Schröder, C.; Schmitt, J. H. M. M. (24 September 2007). "X-ray emission from A-type stars" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 475 (2): 677– 684. Bibcode :2007A&A...475..677S . doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20077429 . eISSN 1432-0746 . ISSN 0004-6361 .