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51 Camelopardalis
Location of 51 Cam on the map (circled)
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
Constellation Camelopardalis
Right ascension 07h 46m 40.07812s[1]
Declination +65° 27′ 20.4266″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.93±0.01[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K2 III[3]
B−V color index +1.18[4]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−30.9±0.2[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +27.601 mas/yr[1]
Dec.: +17.656 mas/yr[1]
Parallax (π)9.7528 ± 0.0372 mas[1]
Distance334 ± 1 ly
(102.5 ± 0.4 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)+0.92[6]
Details
Mass1.08[7] M☉
Radius11.8+0.3
−0.9[8] R☉
Luminosity57.2±0.4[8] L☉
Surface gravity (log g)2.25[9] cgs
Temperature4,626±122[10] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]+0.00[11] dex
Age9.25[7] Gyr
Other designations
51 Cam, AG+65°409, BD+65°593, FK5 2602, GC 10420, HD 62066, HIP 37949, HR 2975, SAO 14321[12]
Database references
SIMBADdata

51 Camelopardalis (51 Cam), also designated as HD 62066, is a solitary star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as an orange-hued point of light with an apparent magnitude of 5.93.[2] Gaia DR3 parallax measurements imply a distance of 334 light-years[1] and it is currently receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of −30.9 km/s.[5] At its current distance, 51 Cam's brightness is diminished by 0.17 magnitudes due to interstellar extinction[13] and it has an absolute magnitude of +0.92.[6]

51 Cam has a stellar classification of K2 III,[3] indicating that it is an evolved K-type giant star. It has a comparable mass to the Sun[7] but it has more than twice the latter's age at 9.25 billion years.[7] As a result, it has exhausted hydrogen at its core and it has expanded to 11.8 times the radius of the Sun.[8] It radiates 57.2 times the luminosity of the Sun[8] from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,626 K.[10] 51 Cam has a solar metallicity at [Fe/H] = +0.00.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e 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.
  2. ^ a b Høg, E.; Fabricius, C.; Makarov, V. V.; Urban, S.; Corbin, T.; Wycoff, G.; Bastian, U.; Schwekendiek, P.; Wicenec, A. (March 2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355: L27–L30. Bibcode:2000A&A...355L..27H. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 17128864.
  3. ^ a b Adams, Walter S.; Joy, Alfred H.; Humason, Milton L.; Brayton, Ada Margaret (April 1935). "The Spectroscopic Absolute Magnitudes and Parallaxes of 4179 Stars". The Astrophysical Journal. 81: 187. Bibcode:1935ApJ....81..187A. doi:10.1086/143628. eISSN 1538-4357. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 121056016.
  4. ^ Haggkvist, L.; Oja, T. (1970). "Results of BV photometry 1969-70 (Uppsala refractor)". Private Communication. Bibcode:1970Priv.........0H. S2CID 231475662.
  5. ^ a b Famaey, B.; Jorissen, A.; Luri, X.; Mayor, M.; Udry, S.; Dejonghe, H.; Turon, C. (January 2005). "Local kinematics of K and M giants from CORAVEL/Hipparcos/Tycho-2 data. Revisiting the concept of superclusters". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 430: 165. arXiv:astro-ph/0409579. Bibcode:2005A&A...430..165F. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20041272. S2CID 17804304.
  6. ^ a b Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (May 2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters. 38 (5): 331–346. arXiv:1108.4971. Bibcode:2012AstL...38..331A. doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015. eISSN 1562-6873. ISSN 1063-7737. S2CID 119257644.
  7. ^ a b c d Dotter, Aaron; Chaboyer, Brian; Jevremović, Darko; Kostov, Veselin; Baron, E.; Ferguson, Jason W. (September 2008). "The Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 178 (1): 89–101. arXiv:0804.4473. Bibcode:2008ApJS..178...89D. doi:10.1086/589654. eISSN 1538-4365. ISSN 0067-0049. S2CID 119290835.
  8. ^ a b c d 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.
  9. ^ Anders, F.; et al. (August 2019). "Photo-astrometric distances, extinctions, and astrophysical parameters for Gaia DR2 stars brighter than G = 18". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 628: A94. arXiv:1904.11302. Bibcode:2019A&A...628A..94A. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935765. eISSN 1432-0746. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 131780028.
  10. ^ a b Stassun, Keivan G.; et al. (9 September 2019). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List". The Astronomical Journal. 158 (4): 138. arXiv:1905.10694. Bibcode:2019AJ....158..138S. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467. eISSN 1538-3881. hdl:1721.1/124721. S2CID 166227927.
  11. ^ a b Charbonnel, C.; Lagarde, N.; Jasniewicz, G.; North, P. L.; Shetrone, M.; Krugler Hollek, J.; Smith, V. V.; Smiljanic, R.; Palacios, A.; Ottoni, G. (January 2020). "Lithium in red giant stars: Constraining non-standard mixing with large surveys in the Gaia era". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 633: A34. arXiv:1910.12732. Bibcode:2020A&A...633A..34C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936360. eISSN 1432-0746. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 204907220.
  12. ^ "* 51 Cam". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
  13. ^ Gontcharov, George A.; Mosenkov, Aleksandr V. (28 September 2017). "Verifying reddening and extinction for Gaia DR1 TGAS main sequence stars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472 (4): 3805–3820. arXiv:1709.01160. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.472.3805G. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2219. eISSN 1365-2966. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 118879856.
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