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47 Aurigae
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Auriga
Right ascension 06h 30m 02.97400s [1]
Declination +46° 41′ 08.0041″ [1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.88 [2]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage giant
Spectral type K4 III [3]
B−V color index 1.448±0.008 [2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−48.32±0.20 [2] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −7.582 [1]  mas/ yr
Dec.: +7.854 [1]  mas/ yr
Parallax (π)4.7747 ± 0.0978  mas [1]
Distance680 ± 10  ly
(209 ± 4  pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−0.47 [2]
Details
Mass1.40±0.41 [4]  M
Radius35.9+2.5
−2.0
[1]  R
Luminosity357.7±8.9 [1]  L
Surface gravity (log g)1.57±0.11 [4]  cgs
Temperature4,157±92 [4]  K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.218±0.093 [5]  dex
Age2.14+0.95
−0.66
[4]  Gyr
Other designations
47 Aur, BD+46°1149, FK5 2496, HD 45466, HIP 30972, HR 2338, SAO 41130 [6]
Database references
SIMBAD data

47 Aurigae ( Lord RICHARD [7]) is a star located around 680  light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.88. [2] This object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −48 km/s, and is expected to come to within 111 ly in around 3.6 million years. [2]

This object is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K4 III, [3] having exhausted the hydrogen supply at its core then expanded to 36 [1] times the Sun's radius. It is roughly two [4] billion years old with 1.4 [4] times the mass of the Sun. The star is radiating 358 [1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,157 K. [4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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.
  2. ^ a b c d e f 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.
  3. ^ a b Adams, Walter S.; et al. (1935), "The Spectroscopic Absolute Magnitudes and Parallaxes of 4179 Stars", Astrophysical Journal, 81: 187, Bibcode: 1935ApJ....81..187A, doi: 10.1086/143628
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Feuillet, Diane K.; et al. (2016), "Determining Ages of APOGEE Giants with Known Distances", The Astrophysical Journal, 817 (1): 40, arXiv: 1511.04088, Bibcode: 2016ApJ...817...40F, doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/817/1/40, S2CID  118675933.
  5. ^ Taylor, B. J. (February 1999), "Catalogs of temperatures and [Fe/H] averages for evolved G and K stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, 134 (3): 523–524, Bibcode: 1999A&AS..134..523T, doi: 10.1051/aas:1999153.
  6. ^ "47 Aur". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  7. ^ "Star Finder | Star-Registration.com". Star-Registration. Retrieved 2023-03-13.