Star in the constellation Boötes
13 Boötis
Observation dataEpoch J2000 Equinox J2000
Constellation
Boötes
Right ascension
14h 08m 17.30243s [ 2]
Declination
+49° 27′ 29.3993″[ 2]
Apparent magnitude (V)
5.26[ 3] (5.29 to 5.38) [ 4]
Characteristics
Spectral type
M1.5III[ 5]
U−B color index
+1.92[ 6]
B−V color index
+1.637± 0.010[ 3]
Variable type
Lb [ 4]
Astrometry Radial velocity (Rv ) −13.92± 0.06[ 3] km/sProper motion (μ) RA: −58.584[ 2] mas /yr Dec.: 59.801[ 2] mas /yr Parallax (π)4.6635 ± 0.1756 mas [ 2] Distance 700 ± 30 ly (214 ± 8 pc ) Absolute magnitude (MV )−0.87[ 3]
Details Mass 0.8-2.6[ 7] M ☉ Radius 74+10 −12 [ 2] R ☉ Luminosity 1,114± 48[ 2] L ☉ Temperature 3,889+379 −248 [ 2] K
Other designations 13 Boo ,
CF Boo ,
BD +50°2047,
FK5 3124,
GC 19095,
HD 123782,
HIP 69068,
HR 5300,
SAO 44905,
CCDM 14082+4927,
WDS 14083+4927[ 8]
Database references SIMBAD data
13 Boötis is a solitary[ 9] variable star in the northern constellation of Boötes , and is positioned near the western constellation border with Ursa Major . In 1977 it was given the variable star designation CF Boötis ,[ 10] often abbreviated CF Boo, while 13 Boötis is the star's Flamsteed designation . This star has a reddish hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 5.26.[ 3] It is located at a distance of approximately 700 light years from the Sun based on parallax , but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −14 km/s.[ 3]
The variability of the brightness of 13 Boötis was announced by Joel Stebbins and Charles Morse Huffer in 1928, based on observations made at Washburn Observatory .[ 11] This is an aging red giant star on the asymptotic giant branch [ 12] with a stellar classification of M1.5III,[ 5] which is interpreted by stellar evolutionary models to mean it has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core then cooled and expanded off the main sequence . It is classified as a slow irregular variable of the Lb type, and its brightness has been observed to vary from +5.29 down to +5.38.[ 4] The star has ~74 times the girth of the Sun and is radiating 1,114 times the Sun's luminosity from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,889 K.[ 2]
There is a magnitude 11.05 visual companion located at an angular separation of 76.40 arcseconds from the brighter star, along a position angle of 270°. This was first reported by William Herschel in 1783.[ 13]
Possible planetary system
In 1991, Duquennoy & Mayor[ 14] reported the possible presence of a low-mass object (of likely substellar nature) orbiting the red giant 13 Bootis. They set a minimum mass of 30 times that of Jupiter (likely a brown dwarf ) and estimated an orbital period of 1.35 years. So far there has been no confirmation about the presence a substellar object.
References
^ EAS (1997). "The HIPPARCOS and TYCHO catalogues" . Astrometric and Photometric Star Catalogues Derived from the ESA Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission . ESA SP Series. 1200 . Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division. Bibcode :1997HIP...C......0E . ISBN 9290923997 . Retrieved 15 October 2022 .
^ a b c d e f g h i 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 .
^ a b c d e f Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters . 38 (5): 331. arXiv :1108.4971 . Bibcode :2012AstL...38..331A . doi :10.1134/S1063773712050015 . S2CID 119257644 .
^ a b c Samus, N. N.; et al. (2017). "General Catalogue of Variable Stars". Astronomy Reports . 5.1. 61 (1): 80– 88. Bibcode :2017ARep...61...80S . doi :10.1134/S1063772917010085 . S2CID 125853869 .
^ a b Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989). "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars". Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series . 71 : 245. Bibcode :1989ApJS...71..245K . doi :10.1086/191373 .
^ Mermilliod, J.-C. (1986). "Compilation of Eggen's UBV data, transformed to UBV (unpublished)" . Catalogue of Eggen's UBV Data . Bibcode :1986EgUBV........0M .
^ Alvarez, R.; Mennessier, M. -O. (1997). "Determination of Miras temperatures from TiO and VO bands. Estimates of distances". Astronomy and Astrophysics . 317 : 761– 768. Bibcode :1997A&A...317..761A .
^ "* 13 Boo" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 25 May 2017 .
^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (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 . S2CID 14878976 .
^ Kukarkin, B. V.; Kholopov, P. N.; Fedorovich, V. P.; Kireyeva, N. N.; Kukarkina, N. P.; Medvedeva, G. I.; Perova, N. B. (March 1977). "62nd Name-List of Variable Stars" (PDF) . Information Bulletin on Variable Stars . 1248 : 1– 25. Bibcode :1977IBVS.1248....1K . Retrieved 5 December 2024 .
^ Stebbins, Joel; Huffer, C. M. (1928). "The Constancy of the Light of Red Stars" . Publications of the Washburn Observatory . 15 : 137– 174. Bibcode :1928PWasO..15..137S . Retrieved 5 December 2024 .
^ Eggen, Olin J. (July 1992). "Asymptotic giant branch stars near the sun". Astronomical Journal . 104 (1): 275– 313. Bibcode :1992AJ....104..275E . doi :10.1086/116239 .
^ Mason, B. D.; et al. (2014). "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog" . The Astronomical Journal . 122 (6): 3466– 3471. Bibcode :2001AJ....122.3466M . doi :10.1086/323920 .
^ Duquennoy, A.; Mayor, M. (1991). "Multiplicity among solar-type stars in the solar neighbourhood. II - Distribution of the orbital elements in an unbiased sample". Astronomy and Astrophysics . 248 (2): 485– 524. Bibcode :1991A&A...248..485D .
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