Bluish variable star in the constellation Fornax
Nu Fornacis , Latinized from ν Fornacis , is a single,[ 13] variable star in the southern constellation of Fornax . It is blue-white in hue and faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 4.69.[ 3] This body is located approximately 370 light years distant from the Sun based on parallax ,[ 2] and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +18.5 km/s.[ 7] It is a candidate member of the Pisces-Eridanus stellar stream , which suggests an age of 120 million years or less.[ 14]
This object is an Ap star [ 15] with a stellar classification of B9.5IIIspSi[ 5] matching a late B-type giant star . The 'Si' suffix indicates an abundance anomaly of silicon. It is an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable that ranges from magnitude 4.68 down to 4.73 with a period of 1.89 days – the same as its rotational period.[ 6] [ 12] It is 3.65 times as massive and 245 times as luminous as the Sun,[ 10] with 3.44 times the Sun's diameter.[ 11]
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^ a b Shulyak, D.; et al. (2014). "Interferometry of chemically peculiar stars: Theoretical predictions versus modern observing facilities" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 443 (2): 1629. arXiv :1406.6093 . Bibcode :2014MNRAS.443.1629S . doi :10.1093/mnras/stu1259 .
^ a b c d Leone, F.; et al. (2000). "A spectroscopic study of the magnetic chemically peculiar star nu Fornacis". Astronomy and Astrophysics . 359 : 635– 38. Bibcode :2000A&A...359..635L .
^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (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 . S2CID 14878976 .
^ Curtis, Jason L.; et al. (August 2019). "TESS Reveals that the Nearby Pisces─Eridanus Stellar Stream is only 120 Myr Old" . The Astronomical Journal . 158 (2): 11. arXiv :1905.10588 . Bibcode :2019AJ....158...77C . doi :10.3847/1538-3881/ab2899 . S2CID 166228270 . 77.
^ Chen, P. S.; et al. (May 2017). "A New Photometric Study of Ap and Am Stars in the Infrared" . The Astronomical Journal . 153 (5): 28. Bibcode :2017AJ....153..218C . doi :10.3847/1538-3881/aa679a . 218.