First star in the Henry Draper catalogue
HD 1 , also known as HIP 422 , is the first star catalogued in the Henry Draper Catalogue . It is located in the northern circumpolar constellation Cepheus and has an apparent magnitude of 7.42,[ 2] making it readily visible in binoculars , but not to the naked eye . The object is located relatively far away at a distance of 1,220 light years but is approaching the Solar System with a spectroscopic radial velocity of −27.3 km/s .[ 4]
Characteristics
Originally thought to be a single object, observations from Griffin & McClure (2009) reveal it to be a single-lined spectroscopic binary . The components take approximately 6 years to circle each other in an eccentric orbit .[ 6] The visible component is an evolved red giant branch [ 1] (RGB) star with a stellar classification of G9-K0 IIIa,[ 3] a spectral class intermediate between a G9 and K0 giant star . It has 3 times the mass of the Sun , but at the age of 350 million years [ 3] it has expanded to 30 times its girth .[ 7] It radiates 226 times the luminosity of the Sun [ 4] from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,844 K ,[ 9] giving it a yellowish-orange hue. HD 1A is metal enriched, with an iron abundance 74% above solar levels.[ 8] The objects spins modestly with a projected rotational velocity of 5.6 km/s .[ 3]
References
^ a b c d e f Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties" . Astronomy and Astrophysics . 674 : A1. arXiv :2208.00211 . Bibcode :2023A&A...674A...1G . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/202243940 . S2CID 244398875 .
Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR .
^ 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 d e f g h Strassmeier, K.G.; Weber, M.; Granzer, T.; Dall, T.H. (20 April 2010). "HD 1: The number-one star in the sky". Astronomische Nachrichten . 331 (4): 368– 377. Bibcode :2010AN....331..368S . doi :10.1002/asna.201011356 . eISSN 1521-3994 . ISSN 0004-6337 .
^ a b c d 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 .
^ Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (May 2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters . 38 (5): 331– 346. arXiv :1108.4971 . Bibcode :2012AstL...38..331A . doi :10.1134/S1063773712050015 . eISSN 1562-6873 . ISSN 1063-7737 . S2CID 119257644 .
^ a b Griffin, R. F.; McClure, R. D. (February 2009). "Spectroscopic binary orbits for the Henry Draper Catalogue stars". The Observatory . 129 : 28– 32. Bibcode :2009Obs...129...28G . ISSN 0029-7704 .
^ a b Kervella, Pierre; Arenou, Frédéric; Thévenin, Frédéric (2022). "Stellar and substellar companions from Gaia EDR3" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 657 : A7. arXiv :2109.10912 . Bibcode :2022A&A...657A...7K . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/202142146 . eISSN 1432-0746 . ISSN 0004-6361 .
^ a b c Anders, F.; et al. (August 2019). "Photo-astrometric distances, extinctions, and astrophysical parameters for Gaia DR2 stars brighter than G = 18" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 628 : A94. arXiv :1904.11302 . Bibcode :2019A&A...628A..94A . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201935765 . eISSN 1432-0746 . ISSN 0004-6361 .
^ 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 . eISSN 1538-3881 .
^ "HD 1" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 23 September 2022 .