5 Aurigae
Triple star system in the constellation Auriga
5 Aurigae
Observation dataEpoch J2000 Equinox J2000
Constellation
Auriga
Right ascension
05h 00m 18.33887s [ 1]
Declination
+39° 23′ 40.9241″[ 1]
Apparent magnitude (V)
5.95[ 2] (6.02 + 9.50)[ 3]
Characteristics
Spectral type
F5 V[ 4]
U−B color index
−0.03[ 5]
B−V color index
+0.42[ 5]
Astrometry Radial velocity (Rv ) +6.0± 1.3[ 6] km/sProper motion (μ) RA: −10.87[ 1] mas /yr Dec.: −1.08[ 1] mas /yr Parallax (π)16.74 ± 0.71 mas [ 1] Distance 195 ± 8 ly (60 ± 3 pc ) Absolute magnitude (MV )2.07[ 2]
Orbit [ 7] Period (P) 1,598.04± 50.35 yr Semi-major axis (a) 5.379± 0.388 ″Eccentricity (e) 0.536± 0.031Inclination (i) 56.1± 0.8 °Longitude of the node (Ω) 155.4± 0.7 °Periastron epoch (T) 3,242.73± 8.96Argument of periastron (ω) (secondary) 333.4± 4.5 °
Details 5 Aur A Mass 1.48[ 8] or 1.70[ 7] M ☉ Luminosity 12.46[ 2] L ☉ Surface gravity (log g )4.14[ 8] cgs Temperature 6,603± 225[ 8] K Metallicity [Fe/H] −0.02± 0.07[ 9] dex Age 2.205[ 8] Gyr 5 Aur B Mass 0.82[ 7] M ☉
Other designations BD +39° 1133,
GC 6084,
HD 31761,
HIP 23261,
HR 1599,
SAO 57559,
PPM 69817,
ADS 3589,
CCDM J05003+3924,
WDS J05003+3924,
TYC 2899-369-1[ 10]
Database references SIMBAD data
5 Aurigae is a triple star [ 7] system in the northern constellation of Auriga ,[ 10] located about 195 light years away from the Sun based on parallax .[ 1] It is just visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.95.[ 2] The system is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +6 km/s,[ 6] having come within 62.4 light-years some 8.7 million years ago.[ 2]
This was initially discovered to be a binary star system by Otto Struve . The outer pair has an orbital period of 1,598 years with an eccentricity of 0.536.[ 7] The magnitude 6.02[ 3] primary, component A, is itself a binary system consisting of two stars of similar mass, roughly 1.5 times the mass of the Sun each, with an orbital period of 8.08 years.[ 11] It has a stellar classification of F5 V,[ 4] matching an F-type main-sequence star .
As of 2017, component B is a magnitude 9.50 star at an angular separation of 4.10″ from the primary along a position angle of 285°.[ 3]
References
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^ a b c d e 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 c Mason, Brian D.; Wycoff, Gary L.; Hartkopf, William I.; Douglass, Geoffrey G.; Worley, Charles E. (2001). "The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog" . The Astronomical Journal . 122 (6): 3466. Bibcode :2001AJ....122.3466M . doi :10.1086/323920 . Vizier catalog entry
^ a b Abt, Helmut A. (2008). "Visual Multiples. IX. MK Spectral Types" . The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series . 176 (1): 216– 217. Bibcode :2008ApJS..176..216A . doi :10.1086/525529 .
^ a b Guetter, H. H. (1980). "UBV Photoelectric Photometry of 259 PZT Stars" . Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . 92 : 215. Bibcode :1980PASP...92..215G . doi :10.1086/130650 .
^ a b Gontcharov, G. A. (2006). "Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system". Astronomy Letters . 32 (11): 759– 771. arXiv :1606.08053 . Bibcode :2006AstL...32..759G . doi :10.1134/S1063773706110065 . S2CID 119231169 .
^ a b c d e Cvetkovic, Z.; Novakovic, B. (December 2006). "Orbits For Sixteen Binaries" . Serbian Astronomical Journal . 173 (173): 73– 82. Bibcode :2006SerAJ.173...73C . doi :10.2298/SAJ0673073C .
^ a b c d David, Trevor J.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. (2015), "The Ages of Early-Type Stars: Strömgren Photometric Methods Calibrated, Validated, Tested, and Applied to Hosts and Prospective Hosts of Directly Imaged Exoplanets", The Astrophysical Journal , 804 (2): 146, arXiv :1501.03154 , Bibcode :2015ApJ...804..146D , doi :10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/146 , S2CID 33401607 .
^ Gáspár, András; et al. (2016). "The Correlation between Metallicity and Debris Disk Mass" . The Astrophysical Journal . 826 (2): 171. arXiv :1604.07403 . Bibcode :2016ApJ...826..171G . doi :10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/171 . S2CID 119241004 .
^ a b "5 Aur" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2019-04-14 .
^ Tokovinin, Andrei (2014). "From Binaries to Multiples. Ii. Hierarchical Multiplicity of F and G Dwarfs". The Astronomical Journal . 147 (4): 87. arXiv :1401.6827 . Bibcode :2014AJ....147...87T . doi :10.1088/0004-6256/147/4/87 . S2CID 56066740 .
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