Star in the constellation Cassiopeia
HD 7924 is a single[ 9] star located 55.5[ 1] light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia , near the northern constellation border with Cepheus . It has an orange hue and is only visible by means of binoculars or a telescope due to a low apparent visual magnitude of 7.167.[ 2] The star is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of –22.7 km/s,[ 1] and is expected to approach to within 9.3 light-years in around 711,700 years.[ 10]
This is a K-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of K0.5V.[ 3] Low-level chromospheric activity has been detected, with the star showing spots and an activity cycle.[ 9] The star is about three[ 6] billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of just 0.9 km/s.[ 7] It has 81% of the mass of the Sun and 74% of the Sun's radius . The metal content is about seven-tenths as much as the Sun. It is radiating 36.4% of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,216 K.[ 6]
Planetary system
In 2009, a super-Earth exoplanet was found in orbit around the star.[ 11] In 2015, two more planets were discovered, and the mass of the original planet was revised downwards slightly.[ 12] [ 9] It is possible that planets c and d are in the 8:5 mean motion resonance .[ 13] All of the planets lie inside the star's habitable zone .[ 9]
See also
References
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^ a b c Høg, E.; et al. (2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics . 355 : L27. Bibcode :2000A&A...355L..27H . doi :10.1888/0333750888/2862 . ISBN 978-0333750889 .
^ a b von Braun, Kaspar; et al. (2014). "Stellar diameters and temperatures - V. 11 newly characterized exoplanet host stars" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 438 (3): 2413–2425. arXiv :1312.1792 . Bibcode :2014MNRAS.438.2413V . doi :10.1093/mnras/stt2360 .
^ a b c Cutri, R. M.; et al. (June 2003). 2MASS All Sky Catalog of point sources . NASA/IPAC. Bibcode :2003tmc..book.....C .
^ a b 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 c Bonfanti, A.; et al. (2015). "Revising the ages of planet-hosting stars" . Astronomy and Astrophysics . 575 . A18. arXiv :1411.4302 . Bibcode :2015A&A...575A..18B . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201424951 . S2CID 54555839 .
^ a b Luck, R. Earle (January 2017), "Abundances in the Local Region II: F, G, and K Dwarfs and Subgiants", The Astronomical Journal , 153 (1): 19, arXiv :1611.02897 , Bibcode :2017AJ....153...21L , doi :10.3847/1538-3881/153/1/21 , S2CID 119511744 , 21.
^ "HD 7924" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2019-11-07 .
^ a b c d e Fulton, Benjamin J.; et al. (2015). "Three Super-Earths Orbiting HD 7924". The Astrophysical Journal . 805 (2): 175. arXiv :1504.06629 . Bibcode :2015ApJ...805..175F . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/175 . S2CID 7969255 .
^ Bailer-Jones, C.A.L.; et al. (2018). "New stellar encounters discovered in the second Gaia data release". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 616 : A37. arXiv :1805.07581 . Bibcode :2018A&A...616A..37B . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201833456 . S2CID 56269929 .
^ Howard, Andrew W.; et al. (2009). "The NASA-UC Eta-Earth Program. I. A Super-Earth Orbiting HD 7924". The Astrophysical Journal . 696 (1): 75–83. arXiv :0901.4394 . Bibcode :2009ApJ...696...75H . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/696/1/75 . S2CID 1415310 .
^ Sanders, Robert (April 28, 2015). "Robotic telescope discovers three super-Earth planetary neighbors" . Berkeley News . UC Berkeley. Retrieved 2019-11-07 .
^ Kane, Stephen R. (2016). "Resolving Close Encounters: Stability in the HD 5319 and HD 7924 Planetary Systems" . The Astrophysical Journal . 799 (1). 105. arXiv :1411.5374 . Bibcode :2016ApJ...830..105K . doi :10.3847/0004-637X/830/2/105 . S2CID 118542104 .