Omicron Columbae
Star in the constellation Columba
"o Columbae" redirects here. For O Columbia, see
O Columbia .
Omicron Columbae is a star in the southern constellation Columba . It has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.81,[ 2] which is bright enough to be faintly visible to the naked eye. The distance to this star, as determined by an annual parallax shift of 30.82 mas ,[ 1] is 105.8 light years . The visual magnitude is reduced by an interstellar absorption factor of 0.06 due to intervening dust.[ 5]
Depending on the source, this star has been given a stellar classification of K1 III[ 2] or K1 IV,[ 3] suggesting that it is a K-type star currently in the subgiant or giant stage of its evolution . It has 1.57 times the Sun's mass and has expanded to more than five times the radius of the Sun.[ 5] The star appears to be spinning slowly with a projected rotational velocity of 1.2 km/s,[ 2] and is around 2.2 billion years old. It is estimated to radiate 15.5 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 4,936 K.[ 5]
Omicron Columbae is a high proper motion star that may share a common proper motion with the object WISE J051723.87−345121.8. The two have an angular separation of 159 arc seconds .[ 8]
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^ Luhman, K. L.; Sheppard, Scott S. (June 2014), "Characterization of High Proper Motion Objects from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer", The Astrophysical Journal , 787 (2): 12, arXiv :1404.6505 , Bibcode :2014ApJ...787..126L , doi :10.1088/0004-637X/787/2/126 , S2CID 67847828 , 126.