Beta Horologii
Star in the constellation Horologium
Beta Horologii , Latinized from β Horologii , is the third-brightest star in the southern constellation of Horologium . It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.98.[ 2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 11.07 mas as seen from Earth,[ 2] it is located about 295 light years from the Sun. The star is moving away with a radial velocity of +24 km/s.[ 5]
This is a solitary,[ 11] A-type giant with a stellar classification of A3/5 III(m).[ 3] It is a suspected chemically peculiar star of the metallic-line type .[ 12] Beta Horologii has a relatively high rate of spin with a projected rotational velocity of 115 km/s, giving it an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is an estimated 10% wider compared to the polar radius.[ 10] It has about 1.40[ 8] times the radius of the Sun and is radiating 63[ 9] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,303 K.[ 9]
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^ a b Houk, Nancy (1979), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars , vol. 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode :1978mcts.book.....H .
^ a b c HR 909 , database entry, The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Preliminary Version), D. Hoffleit and W. H. Warren, Jr., CDS ID V/50 . Accessed on line September 18, 2008.
^ a b de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Eilers, A.-C. (October 2012), "Radial velocities for the HIPPARCOS-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 546 : 14, arXiv :1208.3048 , Bibcode :2012A&A...546A..61D , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201219219 , S2CID 59451347 , A61.
^ a b c Brown, A. G. A. ; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 616 . A1. arXiv :1804.09365 . Bibcode :2018A&A...616A...1G . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201833051 . Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR .
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^ a b HD 18866 , database entry, Catalog of Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (CADARS), 3rd edition, L. E. Pasinetti-Fracassini, L. Pastori, S. Covino, and A. Pozzi, CDS ID II/224 . Accessed on line September 18, 2008.
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^ a b van Belle, Gerard T. (March 2012), "Interferometric observations of rapidly rotating stars", The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review , 20 (1): 51, arXiv :1204.2572 , Bibcode :2012A&ARv..20...51V , doi :10.1007/s00159-012-0051-2 , S2CID 119273474 .
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