Gliese 806

Gliese 806 is a star in the northern constellation of Cygnus, located about a degree to the southeast of the bright star Deneb.[8] It is invisible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +10.79.[2] The star is located at a distance of 39.3 light years from the Sun based on stellar parallax.[1] It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −24.6 km/s, and is predicted to come to within 30.1 light-years in ~198,600 years.[4] The star is suspected to host a substellar companion yet unconfirmed.[9]

Gliese 806
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Cygnus
Right ascension 20h 45m 04.09918s[1]
Declination +44° 29 56.6434[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) +10.79[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type dM1.5[3]
B−V color index 1.491±0.005[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−24.6±0.2[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +434.079[1] mas/yr
Dec.: +271.143[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)82.9968 ± 0.0296[1] mas
Distance39.30 ± 0.01 ly
(12.049 ± 0.004 pc)
Details[3]
Mass0.423±0.010 M
Radius0.415±0.012 R
Luminosity0.0026±0.0003 L
Surface gravity (log g)4.89±0.07 cgs
Temperature3,586±51 K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.15±0.16 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)0.46[5] km/s
Age~3[6] Gyr
Other designations
NSV 13280, GJ 806, HIP 102401, LTT 16068, TYC 3178-00633-1, 2MASS J20450403+4429562[7]
Database references
SIMBADdata

The stellar classification of Gliese 806 is dM1.5,[3] which indicates this is a small red dwarf star – an M-type main-sequence star that is generating energy through core hydrogen fusion. It is roughly three[6] billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 0.46 km/s.[5] The star has 42% of the mass and radius of the Sun. It is radiating 0.3% of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,586 K.[3]

Candidate companion

In 1989, Marcy and Benitz detected a periodicity of 416 days in radial velocity variation, inferring the possible presence of a companion with mass of about 0.011 M.[9] This candidate object has not yet been confirmed.

The Gliese 806 planetary system[9]
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b (unconfirmed) ~11 MJ 416 0.2

See also

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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. Schweitzer, A.; et al. (May 2019). "The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Different roads to radii and masses of the target stars". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 625: 16. arXiv:1904.03231. Bibcode:2019A&A...625A..68S. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834965. A68.
  4. Bailer-Jones, C. A. L. (January 2018). "The completeness-corrected rate of stellar encounters with the Sun from the first Gaia data release". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 609: 16. arXiv:1708.08595. Bibcode:2018A&A...609A...8B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731453. A8.
  5. Houdebine, E. R. (September 2010), "Observation and modelling of main-sequence star chromospheres - XIV. Rotation of dM1 stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 407 (3): 1657–1673, Bibcode:2010MNRAS.407.1657H, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16827.x
  6. Mann, Andrew W.; et al. (May 2015), "How to Constrain Your M Dwarf: Measuring Effective Temperature, Bolometric Luminosity, Mass, and Radius", The Astrophysical Journal, 804 (1): 38, arXiv:1501.01635, Bibcode:2015ApJ...804...64M, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/804/1/64, S2CID 19269312, 64
  7. "GJ 806". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  8. Sinnott, Roger W.; Perryman, Michael A. C. (1997). Millennium Star Atlas. 3. Sky Publishing Corporation and the European Space Agency. p. 1127. ISBN 0-933346-84-0.
  9. Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Benitz, Karsten J. (1989). "A search for substellar companions to low-mass stars". Astrophysical Journal, Part 1. 344 (1): 441–453. Bibcode:1989ApJ...344..441M. doi:10.1086/167812.
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