Bruce Proper Motion 37093

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 2095, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 2594, Bruce Proper Motion (BPM) 37093, Luyten (L) 327-186
Arity: singular
Points of interest:
     In early 2004, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered that the internal structure of this white dwarf is a carbon-oxygen crystal resembling a diamond in structure.

Right Ascension and Declination: 12h38m50.3s, -49°48'0" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 54 light-years (17 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 12.2093%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -34, -5.9, -41
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 27, -45, 12
Proper motion: 0.87 arcsec/yr (257.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -12 km/sec
Source for radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -60, -28, -20

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA6
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.96
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.87
Visual luminosity: 0.0006 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.18, U-B= -0.70
Diameter: 0.0029 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.02 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.061991 degrees

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 6-March-2004.