Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
---|---|
Constellation | Pegasus |
Right ascension | 21h 13m 35.9901s [1] |
Declination | +14° 41′ 21.7846″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 9.78 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | K2V [3] |
B−V color index | 1.611±0.218 |
V−R color index | 0.68 [2] |
R−I color index | 0.50 [2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | −44.30±0.30 [1] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) |
RA: 233.993±0.057
mas/
yr
[1] Dec.: −0.275±0.056 mas/ yr [1] |
Parallax (π) | 20.2337 ± 0.0345 mas [1] |
Distance | 161.2 ± 0.3
ly (49.42 ± 0.08 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | 6.14 |
Absolute bolometric magnitude (Mbol) | 5.56 [3] |
Details | |
Mass | 0.82±0.02 [4] M☉ |
Radius | 0.78±0.02 [4] R☉ |
Luminosity | 0.32±0.01 [4] L☉ |
Luminosity (bolometric) | 0.4786 [3] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 4.57±0.03 [4] cgs |
Temperature | 4,948±25 [4] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | 0.10±0.07 [3] dex |
Age | 6.9±4.2 [4] Gyr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
Exoplanet Archive | data |
BD+14 4559 is a star with an exoplanetary companion in the northern constellation of Pegasus. During the 2019 NameExoWorlds campaign, the star was named Solaris by Poland after a 1961 science fiction novel about an ocean-covered exoplanet by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. [6] With an apparent visual magnitude of 9.78, [2] the star is too faint to be viewed with the naked eye. The system is located at a distance of 161 light-years from the Sun based on parallax measurements, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −44 km/s. [1] It is a high proper motion star, [3] traversing the celestial sphere at an angular rate of 0.234″ yr−1. [7]
This is an ordinary K-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of K2V. [3] The age of the star is poorly constrained, but is estimated to be roughly seven billion years. It has 82% of the mass and 78% of the radius of the Sun. [4] The star is radiating 48% [3] of the net luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,948 K. [4] It has a higher metallicity – the abundance of elements of higher atomic number than helium – compared to the Sun. [3]
On June 10, 2009, an exoplanet ( Pirx) was found in orbit by Niedzielski et al. using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. [3] It has a minimum mass of one and a half Jupiter masses (MJ). The orbit of this object is highly eccentric and it spends 65% of its orbital period in the star's habitable zone. [8] A 2020 analysis of data from the Gaia mission has set a 3-sigma upper limit to its mass of 49.83 MJ. [9] There may be an undetected second planet orbiting the star, however this is unconfirmed. [3]
Companion (in order from star) |
Mass |
Semimajor axis ( AU) |
Orbital period ( days) |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
b / Pirx | >1.52 ± 0.19 MJ | 0.777 | 268.94 ± 0.99 | 0.29 ± 0.03 | >1.769 ° | — |
c (unconfirmed) | >2.4 MJ | >2.3 | 800? | — | — | — |
Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
---|---|
Constellation | Pegasus |
Right ascension | 21h 13m 35.9901s [1] |
Declination | +14° 41′ 21.7846″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 9.78 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | K2V [3] |
B−V color index | 1.611±0.218 |
V−R color index | 0.68 [2] |
R−I color index | 0.50 [2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | −44.30±0.30 [1] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) |
RA: 233.993±0.057
mas/
yr
[1] Dec.: −0.275±0.056 mas/ yr [1] |
Parallax (π) | 20.2337 ± 0.0345 mas [1] |
Distance | 161.2 ± 0.3
ly (49.42 ± 0.08 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | 6.14 |
Absolute bolometric magnitude (Mbol) | 5.56 [3] |
Details | |
Mass | 0.82±0.02 [4] M☉ |
Radius | 0.78±0.02 [4] R☉ |
Luminosity | 0.32±0.01 [4] L☉ |
Luminosity (bolometric) | 0.4786 [3] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 4.57±0.03 [4] cgs |
Temperature | 4,948±25 [4] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | 0.10±0.07 [3] dex |
Age | 6.9±4.2 [4] Gyr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
Exoplanet Archive | data |
BD+14 4559 is a star with an exoplanetary companion in the northern constellation of Pegasus. During the 2019 NameExoWorlds campaign, the star was named Solaris by Poland after a 1961 science fiction novel about an ocean-covered exoplanet by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. [6] With an apparent visual magnitude of 9.78, [2] the star is too faint to be viewed with the naked eye. The system is located at a distance of 161 light-years from the Sun based on parallax measurements, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −44 km/s. [1] It is a high proper motion star, [3] traversing the celestial sphere at an angular rate of 0.234″ yr−1. [7]
This is an ordinary K-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of K2V. [3] The age of the star is poorly constrained, but is estimated to be roughly seven billion years. It has 82% of the mass and 78% of the radius of the Sun. [4] The star is radiating 48% [3] of the net luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,948 K. [4] It has a higher metallicity – the abundance of elements of higher atomic number than helium – compared to the Sun. [3]
On June 10, 2009, an exoplanet ( Pirx) was found in orbit by Niedzielski et al. using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. [3] It has a minimum mass of one and a half Jupiter masses (MJ). The orbit of this object is highly eccentric and it spends 65% of its orbital period in the star's habitable zone. [8] A 2020 analysis of data from the Gaia mission has set a 3-sigma upper limit to its mass of 49.83 MJ. [9] There may be an undetected second planet orbiting the star, however this is unconfirmed. [3]
Companion (in order from star) |
Mass |
Semimajor axis ( AU) |
Orbital period ( days) |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
b / Pirx | >1.52 ± 0.19 MJ | 0.777 | 268.94 ± 0.99 | 0.29 ± 0.03 | >1.769 ° | — |
c (unconfirmed) | >2.4 MJ | >2.3 | 800? | — | — | — |