42 Librae
Star in the constellation Libra
42 Librae is a single[ 6] star located around 370[ 1] light years distant from the Sun in the southern zodiac constellation of Libra .[ 5] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.97.[ 2] This object is drifting closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −22 km/s.[ 2]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K3-III CN2,[ 3] where the suffix notation indicates this is a strong CN star with a high overabundance of cyanogen in its spectrum . Having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core , this star has expanded to 26 times the Sun's radius .[ 1] Within the margin of error it has near-solar abundances of iron,[ 2] suggesting a Sun–like metallicity . The star is radiating 214[ 1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,332 K.[ 1]
References
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l 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 c d e f g h 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 Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series , 71 : 245, Bibcode :1989ApJS...71..245K , doi :10.1086/191373 .
^ McWilliam, Andrew (December 1990), "High-resolution spectroscopic survey of 671 GK giants. I - Stellar atmosphere parameters and abundances", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series , 74 : 1075–1128, Bibcode :1990ApJS...74.1075M , doi :10.1086/191527 .
^ a b "42 Lib" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2019-07-17 .
^ 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 .