Gliese 318

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Gliese 318
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Pyxis
Right ascension 08h 41m 32.42908s [1]
Declination −32° 56′ 32.9158″ [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)11.85 [2]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage white dwarf [3]
Spectral type DA5.5 [3]
U−B color index −0.59 [4]
B−V color index +0.25 [5]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+29.3±2.9 km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: −1,061.158 mas/yr [1]
Dec.: +1,345.900 mas/yr [1]
Parallax (π)117.3961±0.0205  mas [1]
Distance 27.783 ± 0.005  ly
(8.518 ± 0.001  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)12.22±0.04 [6]
Details [6]
Mass 0.47±0.02  M☉
Radius 0.0148 ± 0.00092 [a]   R☉
Luminosity 1.32+0.13
−0.12×10−3  L☉
Surface gravity (log g)7.77±0.03  cgs
Temperature 9,040±190  K
Age 590±40 [b]   Myr
Other designations
GJ  318, CD−32°5613, LHS  253, L 532-81, LTT 3218, WD 0839-327
Database references
SIMBAD data
ARICNS data

Gliese 318 is a white dwarf in the constellation Pyxis. Its spectral type is DA5.5 and it has a visual magnitude of 11.85, [2] and lies 27.8 light-years (8.5 parsecs ) away. [7]

The star was too faint to have had its parallax measured by the Hipparcos satellite. Earth-based measurement in 2009 gave its parallax as 113.63±1.97 milliarcseconds, yielding a distance of 28.7±0.5 light-years; [8] this parallax measurement has since been substantially improved by Gaia .

Gliese 318 is a rather young white dwarf with an age estimated to be 590 million years. Its temperature is around 9,000  K and it shines with 0.13 percent of the luminosity of the Sun. Like all white dwarfs, Gliese 318 is small, with just 1.5 percent the Sun's radius (1.6  R🜨), [a] but has around half the Sun's mass. [6]

Bragaglia et al. suspect this star to be a double white dwarf due to strong spectral line variations. [9] From Gaia DR2 it was not possible to confirm this claim. It is still possible that Gliese 318 is a double white dwarf and additional spectroscopic observations are needed in order to confirm this claim. [10] Gliese 318 could be the closest double white dwarf to earth. [11] [12]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Applying the Stefan–Boltzmann law with a nominal solar effective temperature of 5,772  K:
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  2. ↑ This is just the cooling age

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv: 2208.00211 . Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243940 . S2CID   244398875. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR .
  2. 1 2 Pancino, E.; Altavilla, G.; Marinoni, S.; Cocozza, G.; Carrasco, J. M.; Bellazzini, M.; Bragaglia, A.; Federici, L.; Rossetti, E.; Cacciari, C.; Balaguer Núñez, L.; Castro, A.; Figueras, F.; Fusi Pecci, F.; Galleti, S.; Gebran, M.; Jordi, C.; Lardo, C.; Masana, E.; Monguió, M.; Montegriffo, P.; Ragaini, S.; Schuster, W.; Trager, S.; Vilardell, F.; Voss, H. (2012). "The Gaia spectrophotometric standard stars survey - I. Preliminary results". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 426 (3): 1767–81. arXiv: 1207.6042 . Bibcode:2012MNRAS.426.1767P. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21766.x . S2CID   27564967.
  3. 1 2 Gianninas, A.; Bergeron, P.; Ruiz, M. T. (2011). "A Spectroscopic Survey and Analysis of Bright, Hydrogen-rich White Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal. 743 (2): 138. arXiv: 1109.3171 . Bibcode:2011ApJ...743..138G. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/138.
  4. ↑ Cutri, Roc M.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Beichman, Charles A.; Carpenter, John M.; Chester, Thomas; Cambresy, Laurent; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Huchra, John P.; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Light, Robert M.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Stiening, Rae; Sykes, Matthew J.; Weinberg, Martin D.; Wheaton, William A.; Wheelock, Sherry L.; Zacarias, N. (2003). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003)". CDS/ADC Collection of Electronic Catalogues. 2246: II/246. Bibcode:2003yCat.2246....0C. Archived from the original on 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  5. ↑ Mermilliod, J.-C. (1986). "Compilation of Eggen's UBV data, transformed to UBV (unpublished)". Catalogue of Eggen's UBV Data. Bibcode:1986EgUBV........0M. Archived from the original on 2019-12-08. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  6. 1 2 3 Subasavage, John P.; et al. (July 2017), "The Solar Neighborhood. XXXIX. Parallax Results from the CTIOPI and NOFS Programs: 50 New Members of the 25 parsec White Dwarf Sample", The Astronomical Journal, 154 (1): 24, arXiv: 1706.00709 , Bibcode:2017AJ....154...32S, doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/aa76e0 , S2CID   119189852, 32.
  7. ↑ Sion, Edward M. (2009). "1.The White Dwarfs Within 20 Parsecs of the Sun: Kinematics and Statistics". The Astronomical Journal. 138 (6): 1681. arXiv: 0910.1288 . Bibcode:2009AJ....138.1681S. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/138/6/1681. S2CID   119284418.
  8. ↑ Subasavage, John P.; Jao, Wei-Chun; Henry, Todd J.; Bergeron, P.; Dufour, P.; Ianna, Philip A.; Costa, Edgardo; Méndez, René A. (2009). "The Solar Neighborhood. XXI. Parallax Results from the CTIOPI 0.9 m Program: 20 New Members of the 25 Parsec White Dwarf Sample". The Astronomical Journal. 137 (6): 4547–60. arXiv: 0902.0627 . Bibcode:2009AJ....137.4547S. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/137/6/4547. S2CID   14696597.
  9. ↑ Bragaglia, Angela; Greggio, Laura; Renzini, Alvio; D'Odorico, Sandro (1990-12-01). "Double Degenerates among DA White Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal. 365: L13. Bibcode:1990ApJ...365L..13B. doi:10.1086/185877. ISSN   0004-637X. Archived from the original on 2023-04-25. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
  10. ↑ Hollands, M. A.; Tremblay, P. -E.; Gänsicke, B. T.; Gentile-Fusillo, N. P.; Toonen, S. (2018-11-01). "The Gaia 20 pc white dwarf sample". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 480 (3): 3942–3961. arXiv: 1805.12590 . Bibcode:2018MNRAS.480.3942H. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty2057 . ISSN   0035-8711.
  11. ↑ Toonen, S.; Hollands, M.; Gänsicke, B. T.; Boekholt, T. (2017-06-01). "The binarity of the local white dwarf population". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 602: A16. arXiv: 1703.06893 . Bibcode:2017A&A...602A..16T. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629978 . ISSN   0004-6361.
  12. ↑ Bagnulo, S.; Landstreet, J. D. (2021-11-01). "New insight into the magnetism of degenerate stars from the analysis of a volume-limited sample of white dwarfs". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 507 (4): 5902–5951. arXiv: 2106.11109 . Bibcode:2021MNRAS.507.5902B. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stab2046 . ISSN   0035-8711.
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