Psi5 Aurigae
Star in the constellation Auriga
ψ5 Aurigae in optical light
Psi5 Aurigae (ψ5 Aur, ψ5 Aurigae) is a star [ 8] in the northern constellation of Auriga . It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.25.[ 2] Based upon parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, this star is approximately 53.9 light-years (16.5 parsecs ) distant from Earth .[ 1] There is an optical companion [ 8] which is 36 arcseconds away and has an apparent magnitude of +8.4.
It used to be known to be part of a much bigger constellation named Telescopium Herschelii before it was unrecognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Characteristics
The spectrum of this star shows it to be a G-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of G0 V.[ 3] Thought to be around 4 billion years old, it is similar in size, mass,[ 6] and composition to the Sun,[ 3] making this a solar analog . It is radiating energy into space at an effective temperature of 5,989 K,[ 3] giving it the golden-hued glow of a G-type star .[ 9]
Debris disk
Observation in the infrared shows an excess emission that suggests the presence of a circumstellar disk of dust, known as a debris disk . This material has a mean temperature of 60 K, indicating that it is orbiting at a distance of about 29 astronomical units from the host star. The dust has about half the mass of the Moon and is around 600 million years old.[ 10] The star is being examined for evidence of extrasolar planets ,[ 11] but none have been found so far.
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References
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^ a b 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 .
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^ Rodriguez, David R.; Zuckerman, B. (February 2012), "Binaries among Debris Disk Stars", The Astrophysical Journal , 745 (2): 147, arXiv :1111.5618 , Bibcode :2012ApJ...745..147R , doi :10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/147 , S2CID 73681879 .
^ Grether, Daniel; Lineweaver, Charles H. (April 2006), "How Dry is the Brown Dwarf Desert? Quantifying the Relative Number of Planets, Brown Dwarfs, and Stellar Companions around Nearby Sun-like Stars", The Astrophysical Journal , 640 (2): 1051– 1062, arXiv :astro-ph/0412356 , Bibcode :2006ApJ...640.1051G , doi :10.1086/500161 , S2CID 8563521 .
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