Star in the constellation Mensa
Zeta Mensae , Latinized from ζ Mensae, is a solitary,[ 9] white-hued star in the southern constellation of Mensa . It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +5.64.[ 2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.2879 mas as seen from GAIA, it is located around 394 light years from the Sun .[ 1] At that distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.088 due to interstellar dust .[ 4] Eggen (1995) listed it as a proper motion candidate for membership in the IC 2391 supercluster.[ 10]
The stellar classification of A5 III[ 3] suggests this is an A-type giant star . It is spinning rapidly, showing a projected rotational velocity of 200 km/s,[ 7] giving the star an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is an estimated 26% larger than the polar radius.[ 3] The star is radiating about 69[ 11] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of around 7,555 K.[ 4] It displays a faint infrared excess at a wavelength of 18μm , indicating that it is being orbited by a debris disk .[ 12]
References
^ a b c d e f g h 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 c d Johnson, H. L.; et al. (1966), "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars", Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory , 4 (99): 99, Bibcode :1966CoLPL...4...99J .
^ a b c Belle, G. T. (2012), "Interferometric observations of rapidly rotating stars", The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review , 20 (1): 51, arXiv :1204.2572 , Bibcode :2012A&ARv..20...51V , doi :10.1007/s00159-012-0051-2 , S2CID 119273474 .
^ a b c d Paunzen, E.; et al. (October 2006), "An empirical temperature calibration for the Δ a photometric system. II. The A-type and mid F-type stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 458 (1): 293– 296, arXiv :astro-ph/0607567 , Bibcode :2006A&A...458..293P , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20064889 , S2CID 18219735 .
^ de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Eilers, A.-C. (October 2012), "Radial velocities for the HIPPARCOS-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 546 : 14, arXiv :1208.3048 , Bibcode :2012A&A...546A..61D , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201219219 , S2CID 59451347 , A61.
^ 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 .
^ a b Levato, O. H. (August 1972). "Rotational Velocities and Spectral Types of Some A-Type Stars" . Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . 84 (500): 584. Bibcode :1972PASP...84..584L . doi :10.1086/129336 . eISSN 1538-3873 . ISSN 0004-6280 .
^ "zet Men" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2017-08-15 .
^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 389 (2): 869– 879, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .
^ Eggen, Olin J. (December 1995), "Reality Tests of Superclusters in the Young Disk Population", Astronomical Journal , 110 : 2862, Bibcode :1995AJ....110.2862E , doi :10.1086/117734 .
^ McDonald, I.; et al. (2012), "Fundamental Parameters and Infrared Excesses of Hipparcos Stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 427 (1): 343– 57, arXiv :1208.2037 , Bibcode :2012MNRAS.427..343M , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21873.x , S2CID 118665352 .
^ Ishihara, Daisuke; et al. (May 2017), "Faint warm debris disks around nearby bright stars explored by AKARI and IRSF", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 601 : 18, arXiv :1608.04480 , Bibcode :2017A&A...601A..72I , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201526215 , S2CID 55234482 , A72.