PDS 110

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PDS 110
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PDS 110
Credit: Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0       Equinox J2000.0
Constellation Orion
Right ascension 05h 23m 31.01018s [1]
Declination –01° 04 23.7016 [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)10.4
Characteristics
Spectral type keF6IVeb [2] [3]
Variable type UX Ori? [4]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)27.97±2.55 [1]  km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: 1.503(19)  mas/yr [1]
Dec.: −0.388(12)  mas/yr [1]
Parallax (π)2.8857 ± 0.0212  mas [1]
Distance 1,130 ± 8  ly
(347 ± 3  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)+2.54 [3]
Details
Mass 3.0 [5]   M
Radius 2.23 [3]   R
Luminosity (bolometric)7.76 [3]   L
Surface gravity (log g)3.8 [3]   cgs
Temperature 6,653 [5]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]+0.06 [3]   dex
Age 10 [5]   Myr
Other designations
HD  290380, IRAS  05209-0107, GLMP  91, 2MASS  J05233100-0104237, TYC  4753-1534-1
Database references
SIMBAD data

PDS 110 is a young 11th magnitude star located approximately 1,130 light-years (350 parsecs ) away in the constellation Orion. A series of eclipses was observed in 2008 and 2011, which may have been caused by dust from the star's circumstellar disk. [4]

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Description

PDS 110 is a young star still approaching the main sequence. It has been classified as a T Tauri star, [6] or as a pre-main sequence star. [5] The emission lines indicative of a T Tauri classification are somewhat weaker than a typical T Tauri star, interpreted as a post-T Tauri stage. [5]

PDS 110 hosts a circumstellar disk. [4]

2008-2011 eclipses

Brightness measurements from SuperWASP and KELT showed two similar reductions in brightness in November 2008 and January 2011, both with a maximal luminosity reduction of 30% and a duration of 25 days. These events were interpreted as transits of a structure with a period of 808 ± 2 days, corresponding to an orbital distance of about 2 AU. The large reduction in brightness could have happened due to a planet or brown dwarf with a circum-secondary disk of dust with a radius of 0.3 AU around a central object with a mass between 1.8 and 70 times the mass of Jupiter. [3]

Another transit was predicted for September 2017, [3] but nothing similar to the previous events was seen, ruling out a periodic event. [7] A search of 50 years of archival data also did not find any similar eclipses. The eclipses may have been caused by dust around PDS 110 itself. Larger-scale aperiodic dimmings have been observed as UX Orionis variables, and PDS 110 may be similar. [4]

An independent 2021 study, assuming that the eclipses were caused by a ringed object in orbit around the star, attempted to constrain the properties of such an object, with their preferred solution being a >35  MJ brown dwarf on a nearly circular orbit. However, this does not explain the fact that no eclipse was observed in 2017. [8]

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