Upsilon Aquarii, Latinized from υ Aquarii, is the Bayer designation for a binary star[9] system in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.21.[2] Parallax measurements give a distance estimate of 74.8 light-years (22.9 parsecs) from Earth.[1] This is a high proper-motion star[8] that is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of –2.3 km/s.[1] It is part of the Hercules-Lyra association.[9]
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| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Aquarius |
| Right ascension | 22h 34m 41.63670s[1] |
| Declination | –20° 42′ 29.5745″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | +5.21[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | F7 V[3] |
| B−V color index | +0.44[2] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −2.28±0.51[1] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: +220.383[1] mas/yr Dec.: –147.225[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 43.5816 ± 0.1436 mas[1] |
| Distance | 74.8 ± 0.2 ly (22.95 ± 0.08 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | +3.44[4] |
| Details | |
| A | |
| Mass | 1.4[5] M☉ |
| Radius | 1.49+0.04 −0.06[1] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 3.581±0.17[1] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 4.11[6] cgs |
| Temperature | 6,514±118[1] K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | 0.08[5] dex |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 34.9[7] km/s |
| Age | 900 Ma[4] 250+750 −50[5] Myr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
The primary component is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of F7 V.[3] It is less than a billion[4][5] years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 35 km/s.[7] The star has 1.4[5] times the mass of the Sun and 1.5[1] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 3.6[1] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,597 K,[6] giving it the yellow-white hue of an F-type star.[10]
The star displays an excess of near infrared radiation, suggesting it has a circumstellar disk of dusty debris.[11] This disk has a mean temperature of 75±17 K and is orbiting at an estimated radius of 84±41 AU.[12] A faint stellar companion was detected in 2007 at the Gemini Observatory, with a separation of 6.09″±0.03″ from the primary.[9] This is equivalent to a physical projected separation of 139 AU, which yields an estimated orbital period of ~1,330 years.[13] The debris disk is orbiting close to the dynamically unstable region of this system.[12]
References
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- ^ a b c Johnson, H. L.; et al. (1966), "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars", Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, 4 (99): 99, Bibcode:1966CoLPL...4...99J.
- ^ a b Houk, Nancy; Smith-Moore, M. (1978), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars, vol. 4, Ann Arbor: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode:1988mcts.book.....H.
- ^ a b c Nordström, B.; et al. (May 2004), "The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the Solar neighbourhood. Ages, metallicities, and kinematic properties of ˜14 000 F and G dwarfs", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 418: 989–1019, arXiv:astro-ph/0405198, Bibcode:2004A&A...418..989N, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20035959, S2CID 11027621.
- ^ a b c d e Vigan, A.; et al. (July 2017), "The VLT/NaCo large program to probe the occurrence of exoplanets and brown dwarfs at wide orbits. IV. Gravitational instability rarely forms wide, giant planets", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 603: 19, arXiv:1703.05322, Bibcode:2017A&A...603A...3V, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201630133, S2CID 73635308, A3.
- ^ a b Gray, R. O.; et al. (July 2006), "Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: spectroscopy of stars earlier than M0 within 40 pc-The Southern Sample", The Astronomical Journal, 132 (1): 161–170, arXiv:astro-ph/0603770, Bibcode:2006AJ....132..161G, doi:10.1086/504637, S2CID 119476992.
- ^ a b Schröder, C.; Reiners, Ansgar; Schmitt, Jürgen H. M. M. (January 2009), "Ca II HK emission in rapidly rotating stars. Evidence for an onset of the solar-type dynamo" (PDF), Astronomy and Astrophysics, 493 (3): 1099–1107, Bibcode:2009A&A...493.1099S, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200810377[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "* ups Aqr". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
- ^ a b c Lafrenière, David; et al. (2007), "The Gemini Deep Planet Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, 670 (2): 1367–1390, arXiv:0705.4290, Bibcode:2007ApJ...670.1367L, doi:10.1086/522826, S2CID 17295212.
- ^ "The Colour of Stars", Australia Telescope, Outreach and Education, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, December 21, 2004, archived from the original on 2013-12-03, retrieved 2012-07-02.
- ^ Ertel, S.; et al. (October 2014), "A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris-disk stars. IV. An unbiased sample of 92 southern stars observed in H band with VLTI/PIONIER", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 570: 20, arXiv:1409.6143, Bibcode:2014A&A...570A.128E, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201424438, S2CID 9594917, A128.
- ^ a b Yelverton, Ben; Kennedy, Grant M.; Su, Kate Y. L.; Wyatt, Mark C. (2019), "A statistically significant lack of debris discs in medium separation binary systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488 (3): 3588–3606, arXiv:1907.04800, Bibcode:2019MNRAS.488.3588Y, doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1927, S2CID 195874349.
- ^ Rodriguez, David R.; et al. (May 2015), "Stellar multiplicity and debris discs: an unbiased sample", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449 (3): 3160–3170, arXiv:1503.01320, Bibcode:2015MNRAS.449.3160R, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv483.