Binary star system in the constellation Cetus
HD 11964 is a binary star system located 110[ 1] light-years away from the Sun in the equatorial constellation of Cetus . It is visible in binoculars or a telescope but is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 7.51.[ 2] The system is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −9 km/s.[ 5] Two extrasolar planets have been confirmed to orbit the primary.
Properties
The primary, component A, is a G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G9VCN+1.[ 3] The suffix notation indicates an overabundance of the cyano radical in the spectrum . Houk and Swift (1999) found a class of G8IV, suggesting it is instead a more evolved subgiant star .[ 10] It is around seven[ 6] billion years old and is spinning slowly with a projected rotational velocity of 1.5 km/s.[ 5] The star has 1.1[ 6] times the mass of the Sun and 2.2[ 7] times the Sun's radius . It is radiating 2.9[ 6] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,321 K.[ 5]
A wide binary companion star was discovered in 2000.[ 11] This secondary, designated component B, has a visual magnitude of 11.11 and lies at an angular separation of 29.7″ along a position angle of 134°, as of 2015.[ 12] It is a red dwarf with a class of M0V,[ 4] and has just 0.6 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 0.085 times the Sun's luminosity at an effective temperature of 4,033 K.[ 1]
Planetary system
In August 2005, two planets were discovered orbiting the star, the innermost like Neptune and another like Jupiter orbiting at 3.34 AU. However, the second planet (HD 11964 b ) was not confirmed until May 2007. In September 2007, P.C. Gregory claimed that there was a third planet in the system on the basis of Bayesian analysis of the radial velocity data. The planet was claimed to have a mass similar to that of Saturn and located in a 360-day orbit. Gregory cautioned that the close match between the period of this planet to being exactly a year meant that the radial velocity variations may have been caused by insufficient correction for the motion of the Earth in orbit around the Sun.[ 13] The planet was not detected in re-reduced data in an analysis published in the Astrophysical Journal in 2009.[ 14]
See also
References
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Gaia DR2 records at VizieR:
^ a b c d e f g h i j 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 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 Alonso-Floriano, F. J.; Morales, J. C.; Caballero, J. A.; Montes, D.; Klutsch, A.; Mundt, R.; Cortés-Contreras, M.; Ribas, I.; Reiners, Ansgar; Amado, P. J.; Quirrenbach, A.; Jeffers, S. V. (2015). "CARMENES input catalogue of M dwarfs" (PDF) . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 577 : A128. arXiv :1502.07580 . Bibcode :2015A&A...577A.128A . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201525803 . S2CID 53135130 . [permanent dead link ]
^ a b c d e f g h Jofré, E.; et al. (2015). "Stellar parameters and chemical abundances of 223 evolved stars with and without planets". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 574 : A50. arXiv :1410.6422 . Bibcode :2015A&A...574A..50J . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201424474 . S2CID 53666931 .
^ a b c d e f Ghezzi, L.; et al. (December 2010), "Metallicities of Planet-hosting Stars: A Sample of Giants and Subgiants", The Astrophysical Journal , 725 (1): 721–733, arXiv :1008.3539 , Bibcode :2010ApJ...725..721G , doi :10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/721 , S2CID 119206634
^ a b van Belle, Gerard T.; von Braun, Kaspar (2009). "Directly Determined Linear Radii and Effective Temperatures of Exoplanet Host Stars". The Astrophysical Journal . 694 (2): 1085–1098. arXiv :0901.1206 . Bibcode :2009ApJ...694.1085V . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/694/2/1085 . S2CID 18370219 .
^ Mann, Andrew W.; et al. (February 2013). "Prospecting in Late-type Dwarfs: A Calibration of Infrared and Visible Spectroscopic Metallicities of Late K and M Dwarfs Spanning 1.5 dex". The Astronomical Journal . 145 (2): 15. arXiv :1211.4630 . Bibcode :2013AJ....145...52M . doi :10.1088/0004-6256/145/2/52 . S2CID 118481247 . 52.
^ "HD 11964" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2019-11-12 .
^ Houk, N.; Swift, C. (1999). "Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD Stars". Michigan Spectral Survey . 5 . Bibcode :1999MSS...C05....0H .
^ Allen, C. ; et al. (2000). "Wide binaries among high-velocity and metal-poor stars" . Astronomy and Astrophysics . 356 (2): 529–540. Bibcode :2000A&A...356..529A . Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2008-10-07 .
^ Mason, B. D.; et al. (2014). "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog" . The Astronomical Journal . 122 (6): 3466. Bibcode :2001AJ....122.3466M . doi :10.1086/323920 . Retrieved 2015-07-22 .
^ Gregory, P. C. (2007). "A Bayesian periodogram finds evidence for three planets in HD 11964" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 381 (4): 1607–1616. arXiv :0709.0970 . Bibcode :2007MNRAS.381.1607G . doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12361.x . S2CID 16796923 .
^ a b Wright, J. T.; et al. (2009). "Ten New and Updated Multi-planet Systems, and a Survey of Exoplanetary Systems". The Astrophysical Journal . 693 (2): 1084–1099. arXiv :0812.1582 . Bibcode :2009ApJ...693.1084W . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/693/2/1084 . S2CID 18169921 .
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