Astronomy:50 Boötis

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Short description: Star in the constellation Boötes
50 Boötis
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Boötes
Right ascension  15h 21m 48.57546s[1]
Declination +32° 56′ 01.2942″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.38[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type B9 Vn[3]
B−V color index −0.051±0.002[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−9.0±3.5[2] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −48.846[1] mas/yr
Dec.: +13.916[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)11.8607 ± 0.1288[1] mas
Distance275 ± 3 ly
(84.3 ± 0.9 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)0.86[2]
Details
Mass3.31[4] M
Radius3.1[5] R
Luminosity55.17[2] L
Surface gravity (log g)4.35[4] cgs
Temperature12,140±413[4] K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)232[4] km/s
Age174[4] Myr
Other designations
50 Boo, BD+33°2581, FK5 1395, GC 20672, HD 136849, HIP 75178, HR 5718, SAO 64656[6]
Database references
SIMBADdata

50 Boötis is a single[7] star located 275[1] light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Boötes.[6] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.38.[2] The object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −9 km/s.[2]

This is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B9 Vn,[3] where the 'n' notation indicates "nebulous" lines due to rapid rotation. It is 174[4] million years old with a projected rotational velocity of 232[4] km/s. The star has 3.31[4] times the mass of the Sun and about 3.1[5] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 55[2] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 12,140 K.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Cowley, A. et al. (April 1969), "A study of the bright A stars. I. A catalogue of spectral classifications", Astronomical Journal 74: 375–406, doi:10.1086/110819, Bibcode1969AJ.....74..375C. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 David, Trevor J.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. (2015), "The Ages of Early-Type Stars: Strömgren Photometric Methods Calibrated, Validated, Tested, and Applied to Hosts and Prospective Hosts of Directly Imaged Exoplanets", The Astrophysical Journal 804 (2): 146, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/146, Bibcode2015ApJ...804..146D. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Pasinetti Fracassini, L. E. et al. (February 2001), "Catalogue of Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (CADARS)", Astronomy and Astrophysics 367 (2): 521–524, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20000451, Bibcode2001A&A...367..521P. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 "50 Boo". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=50+Boo. 
  7. 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, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x, Bibcode2008MNRAS.389..869E.