32 Persei is a single[12] star located 149[1] light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Perseus.[11] It has the Bayer designation of l Persei, while 32 Persei is the Flamsteed designation. This object is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.96.[2] It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −9 km/s,[5] and is a member of the Sirius supercluster: a stream of stars that share a common motion through space.[13]
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| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Perseus |
| Right ascension | 03h 21m 26.55723s[1] |
| Declination | 43° 19′ 46.7414″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 4.96[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | A3V[3] |
| U−B color index | +0.07[4] |
| B−V color index | +0.04[4] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −9.00[5] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −59.947[1] mas/yr Dec.: −0.839[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 21.8865 ± 0.2690 mas[1] |
| Distance | 149 ± 2 ly (45.7 ± 0.6 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | 1.64[2] |
| Details | |
| Mass | 2.05[6] M☉ |
| Radius | 1.8[7] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 21[6] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 4.19[8] cgs |
| Temperature | 8,872[6] K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.01[9] dex |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 144[6] km/s |
| Age | 125+75 −25[10] Myr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
This is an ordinary A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A3V.[3] It is around 125[10] million years old with a high rate of spin, showing a projected rotational velocity of 144 km/s.[6] The star has double[6] the mass of the Sun and 1.8[7] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 21[6] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,872 K.[6]
References
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- ^ a b Gontcharov, G. A. (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. S2CID 119231169.
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- ^ a b Allende Prieto, C.; Lambert, D. L. (1999). "Fundamental parameters of nearby stars from the comparison with evolutionary calculations: Masses, radii and effective temperatures". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 352: 555–562. arXiv:astro-ph/9911002. Bibcode:1999A&A...352..555A. Vizier catalog entry
- ^ David, Trevor J.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. (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. S2CID 33401607. Vizier catalog entry
- ^ Gontcharov, G. A. (2012). "Dependence of kinematics on the age of stars in the solar neighborhood". Astronomy Letters. 38 (12): 771–782. arXiv:1606.08814. Bibcode:2012AstL...38..771G. doi:10.1134/S1063773712120031. S2CID 118345778. Vizier catalog entry
- ^ a b Meshkat, Tiffany; et al. (December 2017). "A Direct Imaging Survey of Spitzer-detected Debris Disks: Occurrence of Giant Planets in Dusty Systems". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (6): 21. arXiv:1710.04185. Bibcode:2017AJ....154..245M. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa8e9a. S2CID 42042014. 245.
- ^ a b "32 Per". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
- ^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (2008). "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 389 (2): 869. arXiv:0806.2878. Bibcode:2008MNRAS.389..869E. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x. S2CID 14878976.
- ^ Palous, J.; Hauck, B. (July 1986), "The Sirius supercluster", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 162: 54–61, Bibcode:1986A&A...162...54P.