Gliese 754 is a dim star in the southern constellation of Telescopium. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 12.25,[2] which requires a telescope to view. The star is located at a distance of 19.3 light-years from the Sun based on parallax, and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +6 km/s.[1] It is one of the hundred closest stars to the Solar System. Calculations of its orbit around the Milky Way showed that it is eccentric, and indicate that it might be a thick disk object.[7]
Location of Gliese 754 in the constellation Telescopium | |
Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
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Constellation | Telescopium |
Right ascension | 19h 20m 47.98432s[1] |
Declination | −45° 33′ 29.6435″[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.25[2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | M4V[2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | +6.04±0.19[1] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: +658.775 mas/yr[1] Dec.: −2,896.150 mas/yr[1] |
Parallax (π) | 169.2351 ± 0.0588 mas[1] |
Distance | 19.272 ± 0.007 ly (5.909 ± 0.002 pc) |
Details[3] | |
Mass | 0.173 M☉ |
Radius | 0.205 R☉ |
Luminosity | 0.005[4] L☉ |
Temperature | 3,202±100[5] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.169[5] dex |
Rotation | 132.651 days |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
The stellar classification of Gliese 754 is M4V,[2] indicating that this is a small red dwarf star on the core hydrogen fusing main sequence. It has 17% of the mass of the Sun and 21% of the Sun's radius.[3] The star is fully convective and is a source of X-ray emission.[8] It is rotating slowly with a period of about 133 days.[3] The metallicity is sub-solar,[5] indicating it has a lower abundance of heavy elements compared to the Sun. It is radiating just 0.5%[4] of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of around 3,202 K.[5]
Search for planets
editIn June 2019, a candidate exoplanet in orbit around Gliese 754 was reported in a preprint. It was detected using the Doppler method and is orbiting at a distance of 0.28 AU with a period of 78 days. The orbit is essentially circular, to within the margin of error.[9] The habitable zone for this star ranges from 0.05 AU to 0.14 AU;[4] inside the orbit of this proposed companion. A 2024 study could not confirm any planet around this star; while a radial velocity signal with a 77-day period was detected, this may be caused by stellar activity.[10]
Companion (in order from star) |
Mass | Semimajor axis (AU) |
Orbital period (days) |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
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b (unconfirmed) | ≥9.8+4.6 −5.2 M🜨 |
0.277+0.025 −0.028 |
78.37+0.55 −0.47 |
0.03+0.20 −0.03 |
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References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv:2208.00211. Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940. S2CID 244398875. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
- ^ a b c d Henry, Todd J.; et al. (2018). "The Solar Neighborhood XLIV: RECONS Discoveries within 10 parsecs". The Astronomical Journal. 155 (6): 265. arXiv:1804.07377. Bibcode:2018AJ....155..265H. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aac262. S2CID 53983430.
- ^ a b c Newton, Elisabeth R.; et al. (November 2018). "New Rotation Period Measurements for M Dwarfs in the Southern Hemisphere: An Abundance of Slowly Rotating, Fully Convective Stars". The Astronomical Journal. 156 (5): 11. arXiv:1807.09365. Bibcode:2018AJ....156..217N. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aad73b. S2CID 119209638. 217.
- ^ a b c Mayor, M.; et al. (2009). "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIII. A planetary system with 3 Super-Earths (4.2, 6.9, & 9.2 Earth masses)". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 493 (2): 639–644. arXiv:0806.4587. Bibcode:2009A&A...493..639M. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200810451. S2CID 116365802.
- ^ a b c d Houdebine, E. R.; et al. (May 2016). "Rotation-Activity Correlations in K and M Dwarfs. I. Stellar Parameters and Compilations of v sin I and P/sin I for a Large Sample of Late-K and M Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal. 822 (2): 38. arXiv:1604.07920. Bibcode:2016ApJ...822...97H. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/822/2/97. S2CID 119118088. 97.
- ^ "L 347-14". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- ^ Innanen, K.A.; Flynn, C. (2010). "The Radial Velocity, Space Motion, and Galactic Orbit of GJ 754". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 104 (6): 223–24. Bibcode:2010JRASC.104..223I.
- ^ Wright, Nicholas J.; et al. (September 2018). "The stellar rotation-activity relationship in fully convective M dwarfs". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479 (2): 2351–2360. arXiv:1807.03304. Bibcode:2018MNRAS.479.2351W. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1670.
- ^ a b Barnes, J. R.; et al. (June 2019). "Frequency of planets orbiting M dwarfs in the Solar neighbourhood". arXiv:1906.04644 [astro-ph.EP].
- ^ Mignon, L.; Delfosse, X.; et al. (September 2024). "Radial velocity homogeneous analysis of M dwarfs observed with HARPS". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 689: A32. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202346570.