51 Aurigae
K-type giant star in the constellation Auriga
51 Aurigae is a single[ 8] star in the northern constellation of Auriga . It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of about 5.70.[ 2] Based on parallax , it is located some 464 light-years (142 parsecs) away from the Sun .[ 1] It is receding from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 32 km/s.[ 4]
At 2.2 billion years old,[ 7] 51 Aurigae has evolved off from the main sequence and is now a K-type giant star .[ 2] It is 1.58 times as massive as the Sun,[ 6] 24.5 times as wide, and 178 times as luminous.[ 1] It emits radiation from its photosphere with an effective temperature of about 4,277 K .[ 6]
References
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^ a b Martig, Marie; Fouesneau, Morgan; Rix, Hans-Walter; Ness, Melissa; Mészáros, Szabolcs; García-Hernández, D. A.; Pinsonneault, Marc; Serenelli, Aldo; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Zamora, Olga (2016). "Red giant masses and ages derived from carbon and nitrogen abundances" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 456 (4): 3655. arXiv :1511.08203 . Bibcode :2016MNRAS.456.3655M . doi :10.1093/mnras/stv2830 .
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