Star in the constellation Scorpius
HD 153950 is a star in the southern constellation of Scorpius , positioned about 1.2° to the west of Eta Scorpii .[ 8] It has the proper name Rapeto , which was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Madagascar , during the 100th anniversary of the IAU . Rapeto is a giant creature from Malagasy tales .[ 9] [ 10] This star is visible in a small telescope, having an apparent visual magnitude of 7.39.[ 2] It is located at a distance of 158 light years from the Sun based on parallax . The star is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 33.2 km/s.[ 2]
The stellar classification of F8V[ 3] suggests HD 153950 is an F-type main-sequence star . However, given its position on the H-R diagram , this star has likely already started to evolve off the main sequence.[ 11] It is about 4.7[ 5] billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 3.0 km/s, giving it a rotation period of ~14 days.[ 4] The star has 12%[ 5] more mass than the Sun and a 28%[ 6] greater radius. The abundance of iron, what astronomers term the star's metallicity , is equal to the Sun within the margin of error . It is radiating more than double the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,076 K.[ 4]
Planetary system
In October 2008, an exoplanet of this star was discovered. This object was detected using the radial velocity method by search programs conducted using the HARPS spectrograph . It is a super-Jupiter with an eccentric orbit that has a period of 1.37 years.[ 4] Although the semimajor axis of 1.28 AU lies near the inner edge of the extended habitable zone , about half the orbit lies within the moist greenhouse limit . At periapsis , the exoplanet comes as close as 0.84 AU to its parent star.[ 11]
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References
^ a b c d e 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 g h i 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 Houk, N. (1978). Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars . Vol. 2. Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan. Bibcode :1978mcts.book.....H .
^ a b c d e f Moutou, C.; et al. (2009). "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XVII. Six long-period giant planets around BD -17 0063, HD 20868, HD 73267, HD 131664, HD 145377, HD 153950" . Astronomy and Astrophysics . 496 (2): 513– 519. arXiv :0810.4662 . Bibcode :2009A&A...496..513M . doi :10.1051/0004-6361:200810941 . S2CID 116707055 .
^ a b c d Delgado Mena, E.; et al. (April 2019). "Abundance to age ratios in the HARPS-GTO sample with Gaia DR2. Chemical clocks for a range of [Fe/H]". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 624 : 24. arXiv :1902.02127 . Bibcode :2019A&A...624A..78D . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201834783 . S2CID 90259810 . A78.
^ a b Stassun, Keivan G.; et al. (March 2017). "Accurate Empirical Radii and Masses of Planets and Their Host Stars with Gaia Parallaxes" . The Astronomical Journal . 153 (3): 20. arXiv :1609.04389 . Bibcode :2017AJ....153..136S . doi :10.3847/1538-3881/aa5df3 . S2CID 119219062 . 136.
^ "HD 153950" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2015-12-04 .
^ Sinnott, Roger W.; Perryman, Michael A. C. (1997). Millennium Star Atlas . Vol. 3. Sky Publishing Corporation and the European Space Agency. p. 1460. ISBN 0-933346-84-0 .
^ "Approved names" . NameExoworlds . Retrieved 2020-01-02 .
^ "International Astronomical Union | IAU" . www.iau.org . Retrieved 2020-01-02 .
^ a b Sato, S.; et al. (May 2017). "Climatological and ultraviolet-based habitability of possible exomoons in F-star systems". Astronomische Nachrichten . 338 (4): 413– 427. arXiv :1503.02560 . Bibcode :2017AN....338..413S . doi :10.1002/asna.201613279 . S2CID 118668172 .
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