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HR 3159

This article is about D Carinae. For d Carinae, see V343 Carinae.
HR 3159
Observation data
Epoch J2000.00      Equinox J2000.00
Constellation Carina
Right ascension 08h 00m 19.96678s[1]
Declination −63° 34′ 02.8420″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 4.81[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type B4V[3]
B−V color index −0.173±0.007[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+22.1±2.8[2] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −1.89[1] mas/yr
Dec.: 19.21[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)6.53 ± 0.13 mas[1]
Distance499 ± 10 ly
(153 ± 3 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−1.11[2]
Details
Mass6.3±0.1[4] M☉
Radius3.77±0.27[5] R☉
Luminosity912[6] L☉
Surface gravity (log g)4.03±0.05[5] cgs
Temperature16,983[6] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.09±0.06[7] dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)43[6] km/s
Age17.2±1.3[4] or 176[8] Myr
Other designations
D Car, CD−63°866, FK5 2624, GC 10893, HD 66591, HIP 39138, HR 3159, SAO 250069[9]
Database references
SIMBADdata

HR 3159 is a single[10] star in the southern constellation of Carina, positioned near the southern constellation border with Volans. It has the Bayer designation D Carinae; HR 3159 is the Bright Star Catalogue designation. This object has a blue-white hue and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.81.[2] It is located at a distance of approximately 499 light years from the Sun based on parallax,[1] and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 22 km/s.

This object is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B4V,[3] which indicates it is undergoing core hydrogen fusion. The star has a radius of nearly four times the radius of the Sun,[5] and over six[4] times the Sun's mass. Age estimates range from 17[4] up to 176[8] million years old, and it is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 43 km/s.[6] It is radiating 912[6] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 16,983 K.[6]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e 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.
  3. ^ a b Houk, Nancy (1978), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars, vol. 1, Ann Arbor: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode:1975mcts.book.....H.
  4. ^ a b c d Tetzlaff, N.; et al. (January 2011), "A catalogue of young runaway Hipparcos stars within 3 kpc from the Sun", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 410 (1): 190–200, arXiv:1007.4883, Bibcode:2011MNRAS.410..190T, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17434.x, S2CID 118629873.
  5. ^ a b c Fitzpatrick, E. L.; Massa, D. (March 2005), "Determining the Physical Properties of the B Stars. II. Calibration of Synthetic Photometry", The Astronomical Journal, 129 (3): 1642–1662, arXiv:astro-ph/0412542, Bibcode:2005AJ....129.1642F, doi:10.1086/427855, S2CID 119512018.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Balona, L. A.; et al. (May 2019), "Rotational modulation in TESS B stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485 (3): 3457–3469, arXiv:1902.09470, Bibcode:2019MNRAS.485.3457B, doi:10.1093/mnras/stz586.
  7. ^ Gáspár, András; et al. (2016), "The Correlation between Metallicity and Debris Disk Mass", The Astrophysical Journal, 826 (2): 171, arXiv:1604.07403, Bibcode:2016ApJ...826..171G, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/171, S2CID 119241004.
  8. ^ a b Gontcharov, G. A. (November 2012), "Spatial distribution and kinematics of OB stars", Astronomy Letters, 38 (11): 694–706, arXiv:1606.09028, Bibcode:2012AstL...38..694G, doi:10.1134/S1063773712110035, S2CID 119108982.
  9. ^ "HD 66591". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  10. ^ 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.