18 Sextantis
Location of 18 Sex on the map (circled)
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
Constellation Sextans
Right ascension 10h 10m 55.86074s[1]
Declination −08° 25′ 06.4527″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.62±0.01[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K2/3 III[3]
U−B color index +1.42[4]
B−V color index +1.30[4]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)0.2±2.9[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −0.115 mas/yr[1]
Dec.: −43.987 mas/yr[1]
Parallax (π)5.8416 ± 0.0881 mas[1]
Distance558 ± 8 ly
(171 ± 3 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−0.16[6]
Details
Radius27.3±1.4[7] R☉
Luminosity222±12[8] L☉
Surface gravity (log g)1.72[9] cgs
Temperature4,410±122[10] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.31+0.01
−0.00[11] dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)<1.0[12] km/s
Other designations
18 Sex, 32 G. Sextantis[13], BD−07°2977, GC 13990, HD 88333, HIP 49865, HR 3996, SAO 137395, TIC 26206896[14]
Database references
SIMBADdata

18 Sextantis (HD 88333; HR 3996; 32 G. Sextantis), or simply 18 Sex, is a solitary star[15] located in the southern constellation Sextans. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as an orange-hued point of light with an apparent magnitude of 5.62.[2] Gaia DR3 parallax measurements imply a distance of 558 light-years[1] and it is slowly receding with a poorly constrained heliocentric radial velocity of approximately 0.2 km/s.[5] At its current distance, 18 Sex's brightness is diminished with an interstellar extinction of two-tenths of a magnitude[16] and it has an absolute magnitude of −0.16.[6]

18 Sex has a stellar classification of K2/3 III,[3] indicating that it is an evolved star with the characteristics of a K2 and K3 giant star. At present, it has exhausted hydrogen at its core and it has expanded to 27.3 times the radius of the Sun.[7] It radiates 222 times the luminosity of the Sun[8] from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,410 K.[10] Gaia DR3 models it to be a larger and brighter red giant branch star with a radius of 35.27 R☉ and a luminosity of 384 L☉.[1] 18 Sex is metal deficient with an iron abundance of [Fe/H] = −0.31 or 49% of the Sun's[11] and it spins too slowly for its projected rotational velocity to be measured accurately, having a velocity lower than 1.0 km/s.[12]

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 Høg, E.; Fabricius, C.; Makarov, V. V.; Urban, S.; Corbin, T.; Wycoff, G.; Bastian, U.; Schwekendiek, P.; Wicenec, A. (March 2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355: L27–L30. Bibcode:2000A&A...355L..27H. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 17128864.
  3. 1 2 Houk, Nancy; Swift, Carrie (1999). Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD Stars ; vol. 5. Bibcode:1999mctd.book.....H.
  4. 1 2 Johnson, H. L.; Mitchell, R. I.; Iriarte, B.; Wisniewski, W. Z. (1966). "UBVRIJKL Photometry of the Bright Stars". Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. 4: 99–110. Bibcode:1966CoLPL...4...99J.
  5. 1 2 Gontcharov, G. A. (November 2006). "Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35,495 Hipparcos stars in a common system". Astronomy Letters. 32 (11): 759–771. arXiv:1606.08053. Bibcode:2006AstL...32..759G. doi:10.1134/S1063773706110065. eISSN 1562-6873. ISSN 1063-7737. S2CID 119231169.
  6. 1 2 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. eISSN 1562-6873. ISSN 1063-7737. S2CID 119257644.
  7. 1 2 Kervella, P.; Thévenin, F.; Di Folco, E.; Ségransan, D. (April 8, 2004). "The angular sizes of dwarf stars and subgiants: Surface brightness relations calibrated by interferometry". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 426 (1): 297–307. arXiv:astro-ph/0404180. Bibcode:2004A&A...426..297K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20035930. eISSN 1432-0746. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 6077801.
  8. 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.
  9. ↑ McDonald, I.; Zijlstra, A. A.; Watson, R. A. (15 June 2017). "Fundamental parameters and infrared excesses of Tycho–Gaia stars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 471 (1): 770–791. arXiv:1706.02208. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.471..770M. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1433. eISSN 1365-2966. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 73594365.
  10. 1 2 Stassun, Keivan G.; et al. (9 September 2019). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List". The Astronomical Journal. 158 (4): 138. arXiv:1905.10694. Bibcode:2019AJ....158..138S. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467. eISSN 1538-3881. hdl:1721.1/124721. S2CID 166227927.
  11. 1 2 Poggio, E.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Palicio, P. A.; Re Fiorentin, P.; de Laverny, P.; Drimmel, R.; Kordopatis, G.; Lattanzi, M. G.; Schultheis, M.; Spagna, A.; Spitoni, E. (30 September 2022). "The chemical signature of the Galactic spiral arms revealed by Gaia DR3". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 666: L4. arXiv:2206.14849. Bibcode:2022A&A...666L...4P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202244361. eISSN 1432-0746. ISSN 0004-6361.
  12. 1 2 De Medeiros, J. R.; Alves, S.; Udry, S.; Andersen, J.; Nordström, B.; Mayor, M. (January 2014). "A catalog of rotational and radial velocities for evolved stars V: Southern stars *". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 561: A126. arXiv:1312.3474. Bibcode:2014A&A...561A.126D. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220762. eISSN 1432-0746. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 54046583.
  13. ↑ Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1878). "Uranometria Argentina : brillantez y posicion de las estrellas fijas, hasta la septima magnitud, comprendidas dentro de cien grados del polo austral : con atlas". Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino. 1. Bibcode:1879RNAO....1.....G.
  14. ↑ "* 18 Sex". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
  15. ↑ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (11 September 2008). "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 389 (2): 869–879. arXiv:0806.2878. Bibcode:2008MNRAS.389..869E. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x. eISSN 1365-2966. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 14878976.
  16. ↑ Gontcharov, George A.; Mosenkov, Aleksandr V. (28 September 2017). "Verifying reddening and extinction for Gaia DR1 TGAS main sequence stars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472 (4): 3805–3820. arXiv:1709.01160. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.472.3805G. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2219. eISSN 1365-2966. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 118879856.
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