HD 39901
Star in the constellation Columba
HD 39901 is an orange hued star located in the constellation Columba . It is also called HR 2069 , which is the star's Bright Star Catalog designation. Eggen (1989) lists it as a member of the old disk population.[ 11]
Despite the HR designation, the object has an apparent magnitude of 6.54,[ 2] slightly past the limit for the naked eye visibility. As a result, it is barely visible to the unaided eye in the best conditions. Parallax measurements from the Gaia spacecraft place the object 639 light years away.[ 1] It is approaching the Solar System with a heliocentric radial velocity of −10.3 km/s .[ 5] At that distance, HD 39901's brightness is diminished by 0.33 magnitudes due to interstellar dust.[ 15] It has an absolute magnitude of −0.03.[ 6]
This is an evolved red giant star with a stellar classification of K3 III.[ 3] It has a comparable mass to the Sun [ 7] but has expanded to 21.9 times the latter's girth .[ 8] It radiates 143 times the luminosity of the Sun [ 9] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,373 K .[ 10] HD 39901 is slightly enriched in heavy elements with a metallicity 120% that of the Sun's.[ 11] Like most giants, it spins slowly, having a projected rotational velocity lower than 1.6 km/s .[ 12]
References
^ a b c d e 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 Høg, E.; Fabricius, C.; Makarov, V. V.; Urban, S.; Corbin, T.; Wycoff, G.; Bastian, U.; Schwekendiek, P.; Wicenec, A. (March 2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics . 355 : L27 – L30 . Bibcode :2000A&A...355L..27H . ISSN 0004-6361 .
^ a b Houk, Nancy (1978). Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars Volume II: Declinations −52° to −41° . Bibcode :1978mcts.book.....H .
^ Corben, P. M. (April 1971). "Photoelectric Magnitudes and Colours for Bright Southern Stars". Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa . 30 (4): 37. Bibcode :1971MNSSA..30...37C . ISSN 0024-8266 .
^ a b Gontcharov, G. A. (November 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 . eISSN 1562-6873 . ISSN 1063-7737 . S2CID 119231169 .
^ a b Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (May 2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters . 38 (5): 331– 346. arXiv :1108.4971 . Bibcode :2012AstL...38..331A . doi :10.1134/S1063773712050015 . eISSN 1562-6873 . ISSN 1063-7737 . S2CID 119257644 .
^ a b c Anders, F.; et al. (February 2022). "Photo-astrometric distances, extinctions, and astrophysical parameters for Gaia EDR3 stars brighter than G = 18.5" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 658 : A91. arXiv :2111.01860 . Bibcode :2022A&A...658A..91A . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/202142369 . eISSN 1432-0746 . ISSN 0004-6361 .
^ a b Kervella, Pierre; Arenou, Frédéric; Thévenin, Frédéric (20 December 2021). "Stellar and substellar companions from Gaia EDR3" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 657 : A7. arXiv :2109.10912 . Bibcode :2022A&A...657A...7K . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/202142146 . eISSN 1432-0746 . ISSN 0004-6361 .
^ a b 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 .
^ a b Stassun, Keivan G.; et al. (9 September 2019). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List" . The Astronomical Journal . 158 (4): 138. arXiv :1905.10694 . Bibcode :2019AJ....158..138S . doi :10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467 . eISSN 1538-3881 . hdl :1721.1/124721 . S2CID 166227927 .
^ a b c Eggen, Olin J. (April 1989). "Large and kinematically unbiased samples of G- and K-type stars. IV - Evolved stars of the old disk population" . Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . 101 : 366. Bibcode :1989PASP..101..366E . doi :10.1086/132442 . eISSN 1538-3873 . ISSN 0004-6280 .
^ a b De Medeiros, J. R.; Alves, S.; Udry, S.; Andersen, J.; Nordström, B.; Mayor, M. (January 2014). "A catalog of rotational and radial velocities for evolved stars" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 561 : A126. arXiv :1312.3474 . Bibcode :2014A&A...561A.126D . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201220762 . eISSN 1432-0746 . ISSN 0004-6361 .
^ Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1878). "Uranometria Argentina : brillantez y posicion de las estrellas fijas, hasta la septima magnitud, comprendidas dentro de cien grados del polo austral : con atlas". Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino . 1 . Bibcode :1879RNAO....1.....G .
^ "HD 39901" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2011-12-20 .
^ Gontcharov, George A.; Mosenkov, Aleksandr V. (28 September 2017). "Verifying reddening and extinction for Gaia DR1 TGAS main sequence stars" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 472 (4): 3805– 3820. arXiv :1709.01160 . Bibcode :2017MNRAS.472.3805G . doi :10.1093/mnras/stx2219 . eISSN 1365-2966 . ISSN 0035-8711 .