Mu Telescopii, Latinized from μ Telescopii is a solitary star in the southern constellation Telescopium. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 6.28,[2] placing it near the limit of naked eye visibility. The object is relatively close at a distance of 118 light years[1] but is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 8.6 km/s.[5]
| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Telescopium |
| Right ascension | 19h 30m 34.6118s[1] |
| Declination | −55° 06′ 36.1901″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 6.28±0.01[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | F5 V[3] |
| B−V color index | 0.45[4] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | 8.6±0.3[5] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: 38.548 mas/yr[1] Dec.: −11.540 mas/yr[1] |
| Parallax (π) | 27.6727 ± 0.0284 mas[1] |
| Distance | 117.9 ± 0.1 ly (36.14 ± 0.04 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | 3.61[6] |
| Details | |
| Mass | 1.28[7] M☉ |
| Radius | 1.40 0.07 −0.05[8] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 3.22±0.01[9] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 4.3±0.1[8] cgs |
| Temperature | 6,570±136[10] K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.06[11] dex |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 6.9±0.5[12] km/s |
| Age | 2.12[11] Gyr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
Mu Telescopii has a stellar classification of F5 V,[3] indicating that it is an ordinary F-type main sequence star. It has been noted to be chromospherically active.[3] The star is 2.12 billion years[11] old with a current mass of 1.28 M☉,[7] and has a diameter 1.4 times that of the Sun It is radiating 3.22 times the luminosity of the Sun[9] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,570 K,[10] giving a yellow white hue. Mu Telescopii is slightly metal deficient with an iron abundance 87% that of the Sun[11] and spins with a projected rotational velocity of 6.9 km/s.[12]
It has been observed for infrared excess suggesting the presence of a debris disk but so far, none has been found.[15]
References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c Gray, R. O.; Corbally, C. J.; Garrison, R. F.; McFadden, M. T.; Bubar, E. J.; McGahee, C. E.; O'Donoghue, A. A.; Knox, E. R. (2 June 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. eISSN 1538-3881. ISSN 0004-6256.
- ^ Stoy, R. H. (October 1968). "Photoelectric Magnitudes and Colours for Bright Southern Stars". Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa. 27: 119. Bibcode:1968MNSSA..27..119S. ISSN 0024-8266.
- ^ a b Gontcharov, G. A. (November 2006). "Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system". Astronomy Letters. 32 (11): 759–771. arXiv:1606.08053. Bibcode:2006AstL...32..759G. doi:10.1134/S1063773706110065. ISSN 1063-7737. S2CID 119231169.
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- ^ a b David, Trevor J.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. (12 May 2015). "The Ages of Early-Type Stars: Strömgren Photometric Methods Calibrated, Validated, Tested, and Applied to Hosts and Prospective Hosts of Directly Imaged Exoplanets". The Astrophysical Journal. 804 (2): 146. arXiv:1501.03154. Bibcode:2015ApJ...804..146D. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/146. ISSN 1538-4357.
- ^ 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. ISSN 0004-6256.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Casagrande, L.; Schönrich, R.; Asplund, M.; Cassisi, S.; Ramírez, I.; Meléndez, J.; Bensby, T.; Feltzing, S. (June 2011). "New constraints on the chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood and Galactic disc(s): Improved astrophysical parameters for the Geneva-Copenhagen Survey⋆". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 530: A138. arXiv:1103.4651. Bibcode:2011A&A...530A.138C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201016276. ISSN 0004-6361.
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- ^ a b Groot, P. J.; Piters, A. J. M.; van Paradijs, J. (September 1996). "Rotational velocities of F dwarfs; application of the Fourier-Bessel transformation method". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 118 (3): 545–555. Bibcode:1996A&AS..118..545G. doi:10.1051/aas:1996214. ISSN 0365-0138.
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- ^ Gáspár, András; Rieke, George H.; Ballering, Nicholas (29 July 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. eISSN 1538-4357.