52 Hydrae

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52 Hydrae
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Hydra
Right ascension 14h 28m 10.42638s [1]
Declination −29° 29 29.8884 [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)4.97 [2] (5.70 + 5.70 + 10.00) [3]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage main sequence [4]
Spectral type B7/8V [5]
B−V color index −0.074±0.003 [2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)5.4±3.8 [2]  km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: −25.23 [1]   mas/yr
Dec.: −23.03 [1]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)8.29 ± 0.28 [1]   mas
Distance 390 ± 10  ly
(121 ± 4  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)−0.43 [2]
Details
52 Hya A
Mass 3.82±0.06 [4]   M
Luminosity 310.5+24.5
−22.8
[4]   L
Temperature 12,853±89 [4]   K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)204 [4]  km/s
Other designations
l Hya, 52 Hya, CD−28°10712, FK5  532, HD  126769, HIP  70753, HR  5407, SAO  182570, ADS  9270, WDS J14282-2929 [6]
Database references
SIMBAD data

52 Hydrae is a triple star system [7] in the constellation Hydra. It has the Bayer designation l Hydrae; 52 Hydrae is the Flamsteed designation. [6] This system is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.97. [2] It is a probable (80% chance) member of the Sco OB2 moving group of stars, [8] and is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 5 km/s. [2]

The primary component is a binary system [7] consisting of two nearly equal components with an orbital period of around 15 years [9] and an angular separation of 0.1 . [7] It shows a combined stellar classification of B7/8V, [5] which matches a B-type main-sequence star. The third component is a magnitude 10.0 star at a separation of 4.2″ [7] with a mass similar to the Sun. It is orbiting the inner pair with a period of around 3,900 years. [9]

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