Xi Aurigae
Star in the constellation Auriga
Xi Aurigae , Latinized from ξ Aurigae, is the Bayer designation for a single,[ 9] white-hued star in the northern constellation of Auriga . This star was once considered part of the constellation of Camelopardalis and held the Flamsteed designation 32 Camelopardalis .[ 10] It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.0.[ 2] The measured annual parallax shift of this star is 13.37 ± 0.17 mas ,[ 1] which corresponds to a physical distance of 244 light-years (75 parsecs ) with a 3 light-year margin of error . At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction of 0.108 due to interstellar dust .[ 11]
This is an A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A2 Va.[ 3] Although it was one of the first stars to be cataloged as a Lambda Boötis star , Murphy et al. (2015) don't consider it to be a member of this population.[ 3] The star has nearly twice[ 6] the mass of the Sun and about 1.1[ 7] times the Sun's radius . It is an estimated 174[ 6] million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 62 km/s.[ 6] Xi Aurigae is radiating 49.5[ 5] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of around 9,152 K.[ 6]
References
^ a b c d e f Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties" . Astronomy and Astrophysics . 674 : A1. arXiv :2208.00211 . Bibcode :2023A&A...674A...1G . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/202243940 . S2CID 244398875 .
Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR .
^ a b c d Johnson, H. L.; et al. (1966), "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars", Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory , 4 (99): 99, Bibcode :1966CoLPL...4...99J .
^ a b c Murphy, Simon J.; et al. (October 2015), "An Evaluation of the Membership Probability of 212 λ Boo Stars. I. A Catalogue", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , 32 : 43, arXiv :1508.03633 , Bibcode :2015PASA...32...36M , doi :10.1017/pasa.2015.34 , S2CID 59405545 , e036.
^ 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 d 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 d e 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 .
^ a b Pasinetti Fracassini, L. E.; et al. (February 2001), "Catalogue of Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (CADARS)", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 367 (Third ed.): 5211– 524, arXiv :astro-ph/0012289 , Bibcode :2001A&A...367..521P , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20000451 , S2CID 425754 .
^ "ksi Aur" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2017-09-28 .
^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 389 (2): 869, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .
^ Wagman, M. (August 1987), "Flamsteed's Missing Stars", Journal for the History of Astronomy , 18 (3): 213, Bibcode :1987JHA....18..209W , doi :10.1177/002182868701800305 , S2CID 118445625 .
^ Murphy, Simon J.; Paunzen, Ernst (April 2017), "Gaia's view of the λ Boo star puzzle", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 466 (1): 546– 555, arXiv :1612.01528 , Bibcode :2017MNRAS.466..546M , doi :10.1093/mnras/stw3141 , S2CID 119328659 .
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