Cordoba Durchmusterung -25°225

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 25, Henry Draper (HD) 3443, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -25°225, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 118, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 2941, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 166418, Aitken Double Star (ADS) 520, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 159, S.W. Burnham (BU) 395, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 328
Heavy element abundance: 69% of Sol
Source for heavy element abundance: Strobel [Fe/H] Determinations
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h37m20.716s, -24°46'2.22" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 50.7 light-years (15.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.1283%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 45.4, 7.46, -21.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 0.70, 3.20, -50.6
Proper motion: 1.394 arcsec/yr (90.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: 18.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -86.7, -53.1, -23.2

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +4.60
Combined visual luminosity: 1.26 x Sol
Period: 25 years
Semimajor Axis: 10.4 A.U.s
Eccentricity: 0.22
Periastron distance: 8.12 A.U.s
Apastron distance: 12.7 A.U.s
Year in which periastron occurs: 1924
Source for orbit data: W.H. van den Bos
As seen from A:
     At periastron, B would appear as magnitude -21.58
     At apastron, B would appear as magnitude -20.61
As seen from B:
     At periastron, A would appear as magnitude -21.75
     At apastron, A would appear as magnitude -20.78


Component A:
NOTE: This star is actually a close-orbiting binary pair. The data below are for both sub-components of the pair combined.
Spectral class: G7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.23
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.27
Visual luminosity: 0.68 x Sol
Diameter: 0.88 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.82 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.570237 degrees


Component B:
Proper motion: 1.394 arcsec/yr (90.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: 25 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -86.6, -52.7, -29.6
Spectral class: G8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.40
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.44
Visual luminosity: 0.58 x Sol
Diameter: 0.87 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.76 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.609668 degrees

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