32 Aquarii

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32 Aquarii
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0        Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
Constellation Aquarius
Right ascension 22h 04m 47.42197s [1]
Declination −00° 54 22.8469 [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)5.29 [2]
Characteristics
Spectral type A5 IV [3] or Am (A5/A9V/F2) [4]
B−V color index 0.231±0.004 [2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)18.9±4.2 [2]  km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: −19.69 [5]   mas/yr
Dec.: −42.15 [5]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)14.4329 ± 0.1784  mas [1]
Distance 226 ± 3  ly
(69.3 ± 0.9  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)1.12 [2]
Orbit [6]
Period (P)7.83238±0.00002 d
Eccentricity (e)0
Periastron epoch (T)53,420.2304±0.0001  HJD
Argument of periastron (ω)
(secondary)
0°
Semi-amplitude (K1)
(primary)
7.2150±0.4 km/s
Details
Mass 1.69 [7]   M
Radius 2.97+0.17
−0.07
[1]   R
Luminosity 29.4±0.4 [1]   L
Surface gravity (log g)4.11 [7]   cgs
Temperature 7,976±271 [7]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.26±0.12 [8]   dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)9.6 [6]  km/s
Age 465 [7]   Myr
Other designations
32 Aqr, BD−01°4242, HD  209625, HIP  108991, HR  8410, SAO  145853 [9]
Database references
SIMBAD data

32 Aquarii is a binary star system in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius. 32 Aquarii is its Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.29. [2] This system is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +19 km/s, [2] and is a possible member of the corona of the Ursa Major flow. [10]

This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with an (assumed) circular orbit having a period of only 7.8 days. It has an a sin i value of 0.777  Gm (0.00519  AU ), [6] where a is the semimajor axis and i is the orbital inclination. Since the sine function can be no larger than one, this provides a lower bound on the true semimajor axis of their orbit.

The primary component is a metallic-line (Am) star [6] with the calcium K line of an A3 star, the hydrogen lines of an F1 star, and the metal lines of an F2 star. [4] It is a sharp-lined, slowly rotating star [11] with a projected rotational velocity of 9.6 km/s [6] and is about 465 million years old. [7] The star has 1.69 [7] times the mass of the Sun and three [1] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 29 [1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 7,976 K. [7]

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