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Gliese 754

Gliese 754

Star in the constellation of Telescopium


Gliese 754 is a dim star in the southern constellation of Telescopium. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 12.25,[2] which requires a telescope to view. The star is located at a distance of 19.3 light-years from the Sun based on parallax,[1] and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +7 km/s.[3] It is one of the hundred closest stars to the Solar System. Calculations of its orbit around the Milky Way showed that it is eccentric, and indicate that it might be a thick disk object.[8]

Quick Facts Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0, Constellation ...

The stellar classification of Gliese 754 is M4V,[2] indicating that this is a small red dwarf star on the core hydrogen fusing main sequence. It has 17% of the mass of the Sun and 21% of the Sun's radius.[3] The star is fully convective and is a source of X-ray emission.[9] It is rotating slowly with a period of about 133 days.[3] The metallicity is sub-solar,[6] indicating it has a lower abundance of heavy elements compared to the Sun. It is radiating just 0.5%[5] of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of around 3,202 K.[6]

Planetary System

In June 2019, a candidate exoplanet was reported in orbit around Gliese 754. It was detected using the Doppler method and is orbiting at a distance of 0.28 AU with a period of 78 days. The orbit is essentially circular, to within the margin of error.[10] The habitable zone for this star ranges from 0.05 AU to 0.14 AU;[5] inside the orbit of this proposed companion.

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References

  1. 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.
  2. Mayor, M.; et al. (2009). "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIII. A planetary system with 3 Super-Earths (4.2, 6.9, & 9.2 Earth masses)". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 493 (2): 639–644. arXiv:0806.4587. Bibcode:2009A&A...493..639M. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200810451. S2CID 116365802.
  3. Innanen, K.A.; Flynn, C. (2010). "The Radial Velocity, Space Motion, and Galactic Orbit of GJ 754". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 104 (6): 223–24. Bibcode:2010JRASC.104..223I.
  4. Wright, Nicholas J.; et al. (September 2018). "The stellar rotation-activity relationship in fully convective M dwarfs". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479 (2): 2351–2360. arXiv:1807.03304. Bibcode:2018MNRAS.479.2351W. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1670.
  5. Barnes, J. R.; et al. (June 2019). "Frequency of planets orbiting M dwarfs in the Solar neighbourhood". arXiv:1906.04644. Bibcode:2019arXiv190604644T. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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