Gliese 11

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 11, Giclas (G) 241-76, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1040
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h10m26s, +69°3'12" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 65.8 light-years (20.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 7.1161%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 23.5, 1.07, 61.4
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -32.2, 56.8, 7.69
Proper motion: 0.772 arcsec/yr (113.9° from north)
Radial Velocity: 13.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -63.0, -15.1, -37.8

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined spectrum: M4 V
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +10.94
Combined visual luminosity: 0.0037 x Sol
Observed Separation: 14.1 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -13.95
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -14.29


Component A:
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.06
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.54
Visual luminosity: 0.0021 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.046 A.U.s


Component B:
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.40
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.88
Visual luminosity: 0.0015 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.039 A.U.s

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.