VW Comae Berenices

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 516, Catalogue Astrographique (AC) +18°1204-96, Giclas (G) 63-36, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 66077, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 144
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h32m44.57s, +16°48'40.8" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 51.8 light-years (15.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 9.0909%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -45.6, -19.5, 15.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 12.8, -2.51, 50.1
Proper motion: 0.338 arcsec/yr (127.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -1.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 24.2, 0.31, -8.14

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +10.39
Combined visual luminosity: 0.0061 x Sol
Period: 430 years
Semimajor Axis: 50.3 A.U.s
Source for orbit data: Heintz AJ 99, 420 (1990)
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -11.77
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -12.06


Component A:
Proper names: VW Comae Berenices
Spectral class: M3.5e
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.01 (increasing to +11.51)
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.01 (increasing to +10.51)
Visual luminosity: 0.0034 x Sol (increasing to 0.0055 x Sol)
Variable type: UV Ceti flare star (eruptive variable)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.059 A.U.s


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Palomar (LP) 438-8
Proper motion: 0.338 arcsec/yr (127.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -1.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 24.3, 0.29, -7.76
Spectral class: M3.5e
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.30
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.30
Visual luminosity: 0.0026 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.051 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.