Binary star system in the constellation Boötes
HR 5553 is a binary star system located thirty-eight light-years away from the Sun , in the northern constellation Boötes . It has the variable star designation DE Boötis , and is classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable that ranges in apparent visual magnitude from 5.97 down to 6.04,[ 4] which is bright enough to be dimly visible to the naked eye . The system is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −30 km/s,[ 6] and is expected to come as close as 26.9 light-years in 210,000 years.[ 13]
Orbital elements for this single-lined spectroscopic binary was first calculated in 1981 using radial velocity measurements from David Dunlap Observatory combined with older measurements from Mount Wilson Observatory and Dominion Astrophysical Observatory .[ 14] The two stars orbit each other with a period of 125 days and a large eccentricity of 0.51.[ 5]
Marcel Golay listed the star as a suspected variable star in 1973.[ 15] Gregory W. Henry et al. confirmed that it is a variable star in 1995.[ 1] It was given its variable star designation, DE Boötis, in 1997.[ 16]
The primary, designated component A, is a K-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of K0 V. It is around one[ 11] billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 4 km/s.[ 10] The star has 84% of the mass of the Sun and 86% of the Sun's radius .[ 9] It is radiating 50%[ 9] of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,313 K.[ 10] Component B has an estimated 45% of the mass of the Sun.[ 5]
An infrared excess has been detected around this system, most likely indicating the presence of a circumstellar disk at a radius of 34.2 AU . The temperature of this dust is 40 K.[ 10] The estimated mass of the dust is 0.0002 times the mass of the Earth . It is aligned to within 10° of the plane of the binary system.[ 9] [ 8]
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^ a b Kennedy, G. M. (February 2015). "Nature or nurture of coplanar Tatooines: the aligned circumbinary Kuiper Belt analogue around HD 131511" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 447 (1): L75 – L79 . arXiv :1412.0674 . Bibcode :2015MNRAS.447L..75K . doi :10.1093/mnrasl/slu190 .
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^ a b Mamajek, Eric E.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. (November 2008), "Improved Age Estimation for Solar-Type Dwarfs Using Activity-Rotation Diagnostics", The Astrophysical Journal , 687 (2): 1264– 1293, arXiv :0807.1686 , Bibcode :2008ApJ...687.1264M , doi :10.1086/591785 , S2CID 27151456 .
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