HD 47500, also known as HR 2446, is a binary star[15] in the southern constellationColumba. The primary has an apparent magnitude of 5.91,[1] making it faintly visible to the naked eye if viewed under ideal conditions. As for the companion, its visual magnitude is 7.51.[1] The system is located relatively far at a distance of 1,120 light years based on parallax measurements,[6] and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 21 km/s.[5]
The binary nature of this system was first discovered by Richard Alfred Rossiter in 1942.[16] Their current separation is half of an arcsecond, making it difficult to measure the components properties. Nevertheless, the secondary component is located along a position angle of 4° as of 1999.[17]
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^Rossiter, Richard Alfred (1943). "Fourth list of new southern double stars found at the Lamont-Hussey Observatory of the University of Michigan, at Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa". Publications of Michigan Observatory. 8 (10): 133–140. Bibcode:1943POMic...8..133R.
^Hube, Douglas P. (1970). "The radial velocities of 335 late B-type stars". Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. 72: 233. Bibcode:1970MmRAS..72..233H.
^Houk, N. (1982). Michigan Catalogue of Two-dimensional Spectral Types for the HD stars. Volume_3. Declinations −40° to −26°. Bibcode:1982mcts.book.....H.