YZ Ceti

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YZ Ceti
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Location of YZ Ceti, click for larger image.
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Cetus
Right ascension 01h 12m 30.6369s [1]
Declination −16° 59′ 56.358″ [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)12.03 - 12.18 [2]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage red dwarf
Spectral type M4.0Ve [3]
U−B color index +1.430 [4]
B−V color index +1.811 [4]
Variable type Flare star [5]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+28.09 [6]  km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: 1,205.074 [1]   mas/yr
Dec.: 637.547 [1]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)269.0573 ± 0.0337  mas [1]
Distance 12.122 ± 0.002  ly
(3.7167 ± 0.0005  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)14.30 [3]
Details
Mass 0.130±0.013 [7]   M☉
Radius 0.168±0.009 [7]   R☉
Luminosity 0.002195 [8]   L☉
Surface gravity (log g)5.20 [8]   cgs
Temperature 3056±60 [7]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.26±0.08 [7]   dex
Rotation 68.3  d [9]
Rotational velocity (v sin i)3.40 [10]  km/s
Age 5.0±1.0 [7]   Gyr
Other designations
GCTP 248.01, GJ  54.1, HIP  5643, G 268-135, L  725-32, LHS  138, LTT  670, 2MASS J01123052-1659570
Database references
SIMBAD data

YZ Ceti is a red dwarf star in the constellation Cetus. Although it is relatively close to the Sun at just 12 light years, this star cannot be seen with the naked eye. It is classified as a flare star that undergoes intermittent fluctuations in luminosity. YZ Ceti is about 13 percent the mass of the Sun and 17% of its radius.

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This star is unusually close to Tau Ceti, a star of spectral class G8. The two are only about 1.6 light years apart, [11] a little more than a third of the distance from the Sun to the Solar System's nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri.

Variability

A visual band light curve for YZ Ceti, adapted from Jayasinghe et al. (2017) YZCetLightCurve.png
A visual band light curve for YZ Ceti, adapted from Jayasinghe et al. (2017)

YZ Ceti is a variable star designation: the star shows occasional rapid and brief increases in brightness, sometimes reaching magnitude 12.03, caused by eruptions from the surface. This type of variable star is known as a UV Ceti star after its first member, or more colloquially as a flare star.

YZ Ceti also shows small periodic variations in brightness caused by starspots or chromospheric features moving as the star rotates. This class of variable stars are known as BY Draconis variables. [2] The periodic variations allow the rotational period of the star to be measured at 68.3 days, although modelling of its planetary system gives a rotational period for the star of 83 days. [9]

Planetary system

On 10 August 2017 three planets were announced to have been discovered around YZ Ceti and a possible fourth sub-Earth planet candidate, still needing confirmation, with 0.472±0.096 Earth masses at an orbital period of 1.04 days. The orbits of the three confirmed planets were determined to be too close to YZ Ceti to be within the star's habitable zone, with equilibrium temperatures ranging from 347–491 K (74–218 °C; 165–424 °F), 299–423 K (26–150 °C; 79–302 °F), and 260–368 K (−13–95 °C; 8–203 °F) for planets b, c, and d, respectively. [7]

An August 2018 study reexamined the discovery measurements, confirming the orbit of YZ Ceti d, but finding a possibly marginally longer orbital period of YZ Ceti b of 2.02 days rather than 1.97 days, and additionally finding that YZ Ceti c probably orbits in only 0.75 days rather than 3.06 days. If the latter is true, YZ Ceti c would have a mass of only 0.58 Earth masses and a roughly 10% chance of transiting YZ Ceti. [12] However, a 2020 study did not support the latter conclusion, finding the 0.75-day period to be an alias of the true 3.06-day period. It also did not find evidence for the fourth candidate planet. [13]

Two 2023 studies detected bursts of radiation in radio wavelengths from YZ Ceti, which is likely associated with interaction of the innermost planet, YZ Ceti b, with the star as well as evidence for the presence of magnetic fields. It may be the first detection of a magnetic field generated by a terrestrial exoplanet. [14] [15] [16] [17]

The YZ Ceti planetary system [13]
Companion
(in order from star)		 Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)		 Orbital period
(days)		 Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b≥0.70+0.09
−0.08  M🜨 		0.01634+0.00035
−0.00041		2.02087+0.00007
−0.00009		0.06+0.06
−0.04		——
c≥1.14+0.11
−0.10  M🜨 		0.02156+0.00046
−0.00054		3.05989+0.00010
−0.00010		0.00——
d≥1.09+0.12
−0.12  M🜨 		0.02851+0.00061
−0.00071		4.65626+0.00028
−0.00029		0.07+0.04
−0.05		——

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