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
Spectral type DA5.5
U−B color index −0.59 [3]
B−V color index +0.25 [4]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+29.3 ± 2.9 km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: –1061.158  mas/yr [1]
Dec.: 1345.900  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 [5]
Details [5]
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. [6]

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; [7] 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. [5]

Bragaglia et al. suspect this star to be a double white dwarf due to strong spectral line variations. [8] 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. [9] Gliese 318 could be the closest double white dwarf to earth. [10] [11]

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

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