Astronomy:BD+14 4559

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Short description: Orange-hued star in the constellation Pegasus
BD+14 4559 / Solaris
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Pegasus
Right ascension  21h 13m 35.9901s[1]
Declination +14° 41′ 21.7846″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 9.78[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K2V[3]
B−V color index 1.611±0.218
V−R color index 0.68[2]
R−I color index 0.50[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−44.30±0.30[1] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: 233.993±0.057[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −0.275±0.056[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)20.2337 ± 0.0345[1] mas
Distance161.2 ± 0.3 ly
(49.42 ± 0.08 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)6.14
Absolute bolometric
magnitude
 (Mbol)
5.56[3]
Details
Mass0.82±0.02[4] M
Radius0.78±0.02[4] R
Luminosity0.32±0.01[4] L
Luminosity (bolometric)0.4786[3] L
Surface gravity (log g)4.57±0.03[4] cgs
Temperature4,948±25[4] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.10±0.07[3] dex
Age6.9±4.2[4] Gyr
Other designations
Solaris, BD+14 4559, HIP 104780, PPM 139779, LTT 16221[5]
Database references
SIMBADdata
Exoplanet Archivedata
Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopaedia
data

BD+14 4559 is a star with an exoplanetary companion in the northern constellation of Pegasus. During the 2019 NameExoWorlds campaign, the star was named Solaris by Poland after a 1961 science fiction novel about an ocean-covered exoplanet by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem.[6] With an apparent visual magnitude of 9.78,[2] the star is too faint to be viewed with the naked eye. The system is located at a distance of 161 light-years from the Sun based on parallax measurements, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −44 km/s.[1] It is a high proper motion star,[3] traversing the celestial sphere at an angular rate of 0.234″ yr−1.[7]

This is an ordinary K-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of K2V.[3] The age of the star is poorly constrained, but is estimated to be roughly seven billion years. It has 82% of the mass and 78% of the radius of the Sun.[4] The star is radiating 48%[3] of the net luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,948 K.[4] It has a higher metallicity – the abundance of elements of higher atomic number than helium – compared to the Sun.[3]

Planetary system

On June 10, 2009, an exoplanet (Pirx) was found in orbit by Niedzielski et al. using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope.[3] It has a minimum mass of one and a half Jupiter masses (MJ). The orbit of this object is highly eccentric and it spends 65% of its orbital period in the star's habitable zone.[8] A 2020 analysis of data from the Gaia mission has set a 3-sigma upper limit to its mass of 49.83 MJ.[9] There may be an undetected second planet orbiting the star, however this is unconfirmed.[3]

The BD+14 4559 planetary system[3][9]
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b / Pirx >1.52 ± 0.19 MJ 0.777 268.94 ± 0.99 0.29 ± 0.03 >1.769°
c (unconfirmed) >2.4 MJ >2.3 800?

See also

  • BD+20°2457
  • HD 240210
  • List of extrasolar planets

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 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331. doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015. Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Niedzielski, A. et al. (2009). "Substellar-mass Companions to the K-dwarf BD+14 4559 and the K-giants HD 240210 and BD+20 2457". The Astrophysical Journal 707 (1): 768–777. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/768. Bibcode2009ApJ...707..768N. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Bonfanti, A. et al. (2016). "Age consistency between exoplanet hosts and field stars". Astronomy & Astrophysics 585: 14. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527297. A5. Bibcode2016A&A...585A...5B. 
  5. "9 Cet". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=9+Cet. 
  6. "Approved names" (in en). http://www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/final-results. 
  7. Lépine, Sébastien; Shara, Michael M. (March 2005). "A Catalog of Northern Stars with Annual Proper Motions Larger than 0.15" (LSPM-NORTH Catalog)". The Astronomical Journal 129 (3): 1483–1522. doi:10.1086/427854. Bibcode2005AJ....129.1483L. 
  8. Hinkel, Natalie R.; Kane, Stephen R. (September 2013). "Habitability of Exomoons at the Hill or Tidal Locking Radius". The Astrophysical Journal 774 (1): 10. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/774/1/27. 27. Bibcode2013ApJ...774...27H. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Kiefer, F. et al. (2021). "Determining the true mass of radial-velocity exoplanets with Gaia". Astronomy & Astrophysics 645: A7. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039168. Bibcode2021A&A...645A...7K.