Star in the constellation Camelopardalis
HD 49878 (M Camelopardalis) is a single[ 10] star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis . It has an orange hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.55.[ 2] The star is located at a distance of approximately 191 light years from the Sun , as determined from its parallax .[ 1] It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −29.5 km/s.[ 4] The star has been listed as a candidate member of the Wolf 630 moving group , but is most likely a field star .[ 11]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K4 III,[ 3] having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core and expanded to 19 times the Sun's radius .[ 7] It is roughly 5 billion years old with 1.24 times the mass of the Sun .[ 6] The star is radiating 94 times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,160 K.[ 7] It is spinning slowly with a projected rotational velocity of 1.4 km/s.[ 8]
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 c d e Soubiran, C.; et al. (June 2010), "The PASTEL catalogue of stellar parameters", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 515 : A111, arXiv :1004.1069 , Bibcode :2010A&A...515A.111S , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201014247 , S2CID 118362423 .
^ a b Eggen, O. J. (1962), "Space-velocity vectors for 3483 stars with proper motion and radial velocity", Royal Observatory Bulletin , 51 : 79, Bibcode :1962RGOB...51...79E .
^ a b 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.
^ 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 Dollinger, M. P. (2008), Hunting for extrasolar planets around K giants (PDF) , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Bibcode :2008PhDT.......232D , retrieved 2020-01-04 .
^ a b c d e 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 De Medeiros, J. R.; et al. (November 2000), "Rotation and lithium in single giant stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 363 : 239– 243, arXiv :astro-ph/0010273 , Bibcode :2000A&A...363..239D .
^ "HD 49878" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2018-06-06 .
^ 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 .
^ McDonald, A. R. E.; Hearnshaw, J. B. (August 1983), "The Wolf 630 moving group of stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 204 (3): 841– 852, Bibcode :1983MNRAS.204..841M , doi :10.1093/mnras/204.3.841 .
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