Star in the constellation Aquarius
42 Aquarii is a single[ 8] star located 447 light years away from the Sun in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius . 42 Aquarii is its Flamsteed designation . It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.34.[ 2] This object is moving further from the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of around +13 km/s.[ 2]
This object is an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of K1 III,[ 3] most likely (82% chance) on the horizontal branch .[ 5] It is around 470[ 5] million years old with a projected rotational velocity of 3.4 km/s.[ 6] The star has over three[ 5] times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 11[ 1] times the Sun's radius . It is radiating 70[ 1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,980 K.[ 1]
References
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^ a b Houk, Nancy; Smith-Moore, M. (1978), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars , vol. 4, Ann Arbor: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode :1988mcts.book.....H .
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^ a b c Hekker, S.; Meléndez, J. (2007), "Precise radial velocities of giant stars. III. Spectroscopic stellar parameters", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 475 (3): 1003, arXiv :0709.1145 , Bibcode :2007A&A...475.1003H , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20078233 , S2CID 10436552 .
^ "42 Aqr" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2019-05-16 .
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