Star in the constellation Lepus
Delta Leporis which is latinized from δ Leporis is a solitary,[ 11] orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Lepus . It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.85.[ 2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 28.68 mas ,[ 1] it is 114 light years distant from Earth.
This is an old, evolved K-type star with an age of about 10.7 billion years.[ 6] Keenan and McNeil (1989) classified it as K0 IIIb Fe−1.5 CH0.5 ,[ 4] indicating it is a giant star showing a deficiency of iron and an excess of cyanogen in its atmosphere. However, Gray et al. (2006) listed it as K1 IV Fe−0.5 ,[ 3] which would suggest a less evolved subgiant star . It may be a red clump star, which indicates it is generating energy through helium fusion at its core .[ 12]
The measured angular diameter of this star, after correction for limb darkening , is 2.63± 0.04 mas .[ 13] At the estimated distance of this star, this yields a physical size of about 10 times the radius of the Sun .[ 7] It has only 94%[ 6] of the Sun's mass and is radiating 46[ 6] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,660 K.[ 8]
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^ a b Gray, R. O.; et al. (July 2006), "Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: spectroscopy of stars earlier than M0 within 40 pc-The Southern Sample", The Astronomical Journal , 132 (1): 161– 170, arXiv :astro-ph/0603770 , Bibcode :2006AJ....132..161G , doi :10.1086/504637 , S2CID 119476992 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 , S2CID 119231169 .
^ a b c d e f g Takeda, Yoichi; et al. (August 2008), "Stellar Parameters and Elemental Abundances of Late-G Giants", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan , 60 (4): 781– 802, arXiv :0805.2434 , Bibcode :2008PASJ...60..781T , doi :10.1093/pasj/60.4.781 , S2CID 16258166 .
^ a b Lang, Kenneth R. (2006), Astrophysical formulae , Astronomy and astrophysics library, vol. 1 (3rd ed.), Birkhäuser , ISBN 3-540-29692-1 . The radius (R* ) is given by:
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^ a b c d Sharma, Kaushal; et al. (2016), "New atmospheric parameters and spectral interpolator for the MILES cool stars", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 585 : 27, arXiv :1512.04882 , Bibcode :2016A&A...585A..64S , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201526111 , S2CID 118576178 , A64.
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^ 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 .
^ Alves, David R. (August 2000), "K-Band Calibration of the Red Clump Luminosity", The Astrophysical Journal , 539 (2): 732– 741, arXiv :astro-ph/0003329 , Bibcode :2000ApJ...539..732A , doi :10.1086/309278 , S2CID 16673121 .
^ Richichi, A.; et al. (February 2005), "CHARM2: An updated Catalog of High Angular Resolution Measurements", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 431 (2): 773– 777, Bibcode :2005A&A...431..773R , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20042039 .