Kappa Chamaeleonitis, Latinized from κ Chamaeleonitis, is a single[8] star in the southern constellation of Chamaeleon. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.024.[2] The distance to this object is approximately 490 light-years, based on the star's parallax.[1] It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of -2 km/s.[3]
| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Chamaeleon |
| Right ascension | 12h 04m 46.47090s[1] |
| Declination | −76° 31′ 08.6272″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.024[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | K4III[3] |
| U−B color index | +1.78[4] |
| B−V color index | +1.49[4] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −2.19±0.19[3] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: -77.805[1] mas/yr Dec.: 45.837[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 6.6724 ± 0.1927 mas[1] |
| Distance | 490 ± 10 ly (150 ± 4 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | −0.78[5] |
| Details | |
| Mass | 1.4[6] M☉ |
| Radius | 46.12[1] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 485.7[1] L☉ |
| Temperature | 3,990[1] K |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | <1.0[3] km/s |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
This is an aging K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K4III,[3] having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core then cooled and expanded to its current size of 46[1] times the Sun's radius. It is a candidate periodic microvariable, with its brightness fluctuating by 0.005 magnitude at the rate of 0.25664 cycles per day.[9] The star is 1.4[6] times as massive as the Sun and is radiating 486 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,990 K.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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.
- ^ a b Høg, E.; et al. (2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355: L27–L30. Bibcode:2000A&A...355L..27H.
- ^ a b c d e de Medeiros, J. R.; Alves, S.; Udry, S.; Andersen, J.; Nordström, B.; Mayor, M. (2014). "A catalog of rotational and radial velocities for evolved stars". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 561: A126. arXiv:1312.3474. Bibcode:2014A&A...561A.126D. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220762. S2CID 54046583.
- ^ a b Johnson, H. L. (1966). "UBVRIJKL Photometry of the Bright Stars". Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. 4: 99. Bibcode:1966CoLPL...4...99J.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Chandler, Colin Orion; et al. (2016). "The Catalog of Earth-Like Exoplanet Survey Targets (CELESTA): A Database of Habitable Zones Around Nearby Stars". The Astronomical Journal. 151 (3): 59. arXiv:1510.05666. Bibcode:2016AJ....151...59C. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/151/3/59. S2CID 119246448.
- ^ "kap Cha". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (2008). "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 389 (2): 869. arXiv:0806.2878. Bibcode:2008MNRAS.389..869E. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x. S2CID 14878976.
- ^ Koen, Chris; Eyer, Laurent (2002). "New periodic variables from the Hipparcos epoch photometry". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 331 (1): 45–59. arXiv:astro-ph/0112194. Bibcode:2002MNRAS.331...45K. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05150.x. S2CID 10505995.