HD 42936

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HD 42936
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Location of HD 42936 in the night sky. The star is marked within the red diamond.
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0        Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
Constellation Mensa
Right ascension 06h 06m 29.84725s [1]
Declination −72° 30′ 45.5674″ [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)9.10 [2]
Characteristics
HD 42936A
Evolutionary stage main sequence star
Spectral type K0 IV/V [3]
B−V color index +0.91 [4]
HD 42936B
Evolutionary stage main sequence star
Spectral type L [5]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)35.64±0.49 [1] km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: −0.716 mas/yr [1]
Dec.: −382.755 mas/yr [1]
Parallax (π)21.2496±0.1143  mas [1]
Distance 153.5 ± 0.8  ly
(47.1 ± 0.3  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)5.78 [2]
Orbit [6]
PrimaryHD 42936A
CompanionHD 42936B
Period (P)506.89±0.01  d
Semi-major axis (a)1.139±0.004  AU
Eccentricity (e)0.596±0.001
Inclination (i)63.89±0.78°
Argument of periastron (ω)
(secondary)		158.88+0.03
−0.01°
Semi-amplitude (K1)
(primary)		2.65731+0.00033
−0.00002 km/s
Details [6]
HD 42936A
Mass 0.900±0.009  M☉
Radius 0.861±0.005  R☉
Luminosity 0.510±0.003 [7]   L☉
Surface gravity (log g)4.266±0.045  cgs
Temperature 5,201±20  K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.147±0.013  dex
Rotation 21.8+0.5
−16.5  d [8]
Rotational velocity (v sin i)3.17±0.1 km/s
Age 9.6±0.8  Gyr
HD 42936B
Mass 91.90±0.85  MJup
Other designations
DMPP-3, CD−72°312, CPD−72°451, GC 7845, HD 42936, HIP 28941, SAO 256269 [9]
Database references
SIMBAD data
Exoplanet Archive data

HD 42936, also known as DMPP-3, is a star located in the southern circumpolar constellation Mensa. With an apparent magnitude of 9.1, [2] it is too faint to be detected with the naked eye but can be seen with a telescope. The star is relatively close at a distance of about 153 light-years (47 parsecs ) but is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 35.6  km/s . [1]

Contents

HD 42936 is an early K-type star with the blended luminosity class of a main sequence star and a subgiant. [3] At present it has 87% the mass of the Sun and 91% the radius of the Sun. [8] The object shines at 51% the luminosity of the Sun [7] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,138 K, [8] which gives it an orangish yellow glow. HD 42936 has iron abundance 151% that of the Sun, meaning it is metal enriched [10] despite an age of 10.9 billion years. [8]

HD 42936 has a very low mass companion star in a close orbit, [8] approaching to 0.498  AU at periastron. [6]

Planetary system

In 2019, a radial velocity analysis carried out by a team of astronomers led by astronomer John R. Barnes of the Dispersed Matter Planet Project (DMPP) confirmed the existence of a super-Earth in orbit around DMPP-3 A. Planets in close binary star systems such as this are rare. [8]

A follow-up study in 2023 refined the parameters of the planet and companion star, and detected two additional radial velocity signals. One of these could be caused by a second, Earth-mass planet closer to the star, but the other, 800-day signal cannot be caused by an orbiting body because the companion star would make its orbit unstable. The study concludes that the 800-day signal must be caused by stellar activity, but if not for the companion star it could have been considered a likely planet, which has implications for other radial velocity planet detections. [6]

The DMPP-3 A planetary system [6]
Companion
(in order from star)		 Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)		 Orbital period
(days)		 Eccentricity Inclination Radius
c(unconfirmed)≥1.065+0.173
−0.259 M🜨 		0.033+0.002
−0.0001		2.26+0.20
−0.10		0——
b≥2.22+0.50
−0.28  M🜨 		0.0670+0.0003
−0.0002		6.6732+0.0011
−0.0003 [8] 		0.174+0.032
−0.084		——

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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 3 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (May 2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters. 38 (5): 331–346. arXiv: 1108.4971 . Bibcode:2012AstL...38..331A. doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015. ISSN   1063-7737. S2CID   255204555.
  3. 1 2 Houk, N.; Cowley, A. P. (1975). University of Michigan Catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars. Volume I. Declinations -90_ to -53_ƒ0. Bibcode:1975mcts.book.....H.
  4. ↑ Cousins, A. W. J.; Stoy, R. H. (1962). "Photoelectric magnitudes and colours of Southern stars". Royal Greenwich Observatory Bulletins. 64: 103. Bibcode:1962RGOB...64..103C.
  5. ↑ Haswell, Carole A.; Staab, Daniel; Barnes, John R.; Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Fossati, Luca; Jenkins, James S.; Norton, Andrew J.; Doherty, James P. J.; Cooper, Joseph (2019). "Dispersed Matter Planet Project discoveries of ablating planets orbiting nearby bright stars". Nature Astronomy. 4 (4): 408–418. arXiv: 1912.10874 . doi:10.1038/s41550-019-0973-y. S2CID   209444484.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Stevenson, Adam T.; Haswell, Carole A.; et al. (May 2023). "DMPP-3: confirmation of short-period S-type planet(s) in a compact eccentric binary star system, and warnings about long-period RV planet detections". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 523: 189–207. arXiv: 2305.06263 . doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad1441 .
  7. 1 2 Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 616. A1. arXiv: 1804.09365 . Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833051 . Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Barnes, John R.; Haswell, Carole A.; Staab, Daniel; Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Fossati, Luca; Doherty, James P. J.; Cooper, Joseph; Jenkins, James S.; Díaz, Matías R.; Soto, Maritza G.; Peña Rojas, Pablo A. (2019). "An ablating 2.6-M🜨 planet in an eccentric binary from the Dispersed Matter Planet Project". Nature Astronomy. 4 (4): 419–426. arXiv: 1912.10793 . doi:10.1038/s41550-019-0972-z. S2CID   209444780.
  9. ↑ HD 42936, entry, SIMBAD. Accessed online December 24, 2019.
  10. ↑ Jenkins, J. S.; Jones, H. R. A.; Pavlenko, Y.; Pinfield, D. J.; Barnes, J. R.; Lyubchik, Y. (July 2008). "Metallicities and activities of southern stars". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 485 (2): 571–584. arXiv: 0804.1128 . Bibcode:2008A&A...485..571J. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20078611 . ISSN   0004-6361.


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