59 Virginis

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59 Virginis
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Virgo
Right ascension 13h 16m 46.51616s [1]
Declination 09° 25′ 26.9672″ [1]
Characteristics
Spectral type G0V [2]
Apparent magnitude  (B)5.81
Apparent magnitude  (V)5.22
Apparent magnitude  (R)4.8
Apparent magnitude  (I)4.5
Apparent magnitude  (J)4.392 ± 0.284
Apparent magnitude  (H)4.107 ± 0.208
Apparent magnitude  (K)4.033 ± 0.238
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−25.9 ± 0.9 km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: -335.47±0.19  mas/yr [3]
Dec.: 191.04±0.20  mas/yr [3]
Parallax (π)56.86 ± 0.12  mas [3]
Distance 57.4 ± 0.1  ly
(17.59 ± 0.04  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)4.08±0.010 [4]
Details
Mass 1.16 ± 0.05 [5]   M☉
Radius 1.227±0.012 [6]   R☉
Luminosity (bolometric)2.01±0.03 [6]   L☉
Surface gravity (log g)4.29±0.07 [6]   cgs
Temperature 6,205±20 [6]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.22±0.04 [6]   dex
Rotation 3.329 days [2]
Rotational velocity (v sin i)5.47+0.12
−0.17 [7]  km/s
Age 160 [7]   Myr
Other designations
e Vir (e Virginis), BD+10 2531, 59 Vir (59 Virginis), GJ (Gliese, Gl) 504, HD 115383, HIP 64792, HR 5011, SAO 119847, WDS J13168+0925A
Database references
SIMBAD data
ARICNS data

59 Virginis (e Virginis, HR 5011, Gliese 504) is a G-type main-sequence star, located in constellation Virgo at approximately 57 light-years from Earth.

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History of observations

59 Virginis is known to astronomers at least from 1598, when it was catalogued by Tycho Brahe in his manuscript catalogue of 1004 fixed stars. Brahe designated it as "Parvula sequens vindemiatricem", which means in Latin "A tiny following Vindemiatrix" (that is Epsilon Virginis), and assigned it a visual magnitude 6 [8] [9] (a modern value of its apparent magnitude (in band V) is 5.22). Five years later in 1603 Johann Bayer pictured it on constellation Virgo folio of his celestial atlas "Uranometria" and designated it with number 37, letter "e" (hence its Bayer designation e Virginis, or e Vir) and name "Alæ dextræ sequens", which means in Latin "Following right wing". Bayer also assigned it a visual magnitude 6. [10]

Four hundred fifteen years later in 2013 July Kuzuhara et al. announced discovery of orbiting this star planet b. The discovery was made using 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope of Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.

Age and other characteristics

The star is a young Sun-like star of spectral type G0V and effective temperature 6205 ± 20 K [11] (not much hotter than the Sun). It is also twice brighter than the Sun, its log (L/L⊙) is 0.332 ± 0.032. Its rotation period is 3.329 days. [2] The star exhibit a Sun-like magnetic reversal cycle with the period about 12 years. [12]

Age of the star was estimated as 0.16+0.35
−0.60 Gyr (2013), [2] 4.5+2.0
−1.5 Gyr (2015), [5] and 2.5+1.0
−0.7 Gyr (2017). [11]

Planetary system

In 2013, the discovery of a Jovian planet, b, by direct imaging of the system was announced. [2] A later re-analysis suggested that it may actually be a brown dwarf. [11]

The 59 Virginis planetary system
Companion
(in order from star)		 Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)		 Orbital period
(days)		 Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b 4.0+4.5
−1.0  MJ 		80±49>560000.31±0.31141±30° 0.97±0.07  RJ

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