Star in the constellation Vela
This article is about l Velorum. Not to be confused with
i Velorum .
HD 79917 is a single[ 5] star in the southern constellation of Vela . It has the Bayer designation l (lowercase L) Velorum , while HD 79917 is the star's identifier from the Henry Draper Catalogue . The star has an orange hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.92.[ 2] It is located at a distance of approximately 228 light-years from the Sun based on parallax , and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +1.6 km/s.[ 1]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K1III,[ 3] having exhausted is core hydrogen then cooled and expanded off the main sequence . It has 12.6 times the girth of the Sun and is radiating 67 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,643 K .[ 1]
References
^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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 .
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^ a b Houk, Nancy (1979), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars , vol. 3, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode :1982mcts.book.....H .
^ "HD 79917" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-01-25 .
^ 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 .