Cordoba Durchmusterung -23°332

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 40, Henry Draper (HD) 4967, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -23°332, Giclas (G) 268-60, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 4022, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 166631, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 89
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h51m34.05s, -22°54'36.6" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 49.6 light-years (15.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.1413%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 44.5, 10.2, -19.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -2.55, 2.97, -49.4
Proper motion: 0.681 arcsec/yr (114.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: 15.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -27.3, -40.4, -16.5

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +8.04
Combined visual luminosity: 0.053 x Sol
Observed Separation: 258 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -3.01
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -11.47


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1159
Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.95
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.04
Visual luminosity: 0.053 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.29, U-B= +1.12, R-I= +0.55
Diameter: 0.69 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.23 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.600259 degrees


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1160, Luyten Palomar (LP) 826-170
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h49m6s, -23°10'41" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 47.1 light-years (14.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 9.7784%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 42.3, 9.21, -18.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -1.91, 2.90, -47.0
Proper motion: 0.678 arcsec/yr (113.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: 15.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -26.3, -37.7, -16.7
Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +17.30
Absolute visual magnitude: +16.50
Visual luminosity: 0.000022 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0047 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.