62_Aurigae

62 Aurigae

62 Aurigae

Star in the constellation Auriga

62 Aurigae is a star located 559[1] light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga.[5] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.02.[2] This object is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +25 km/s.[1] It is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K2 III,[3] having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core then expanded to 22[1] times the Sun's radius. 62 Aurigae is radiating 167[1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,389 K.[1]

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References

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    Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
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    Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters, 38 (5): 331, arXiv:1108.4971, Bibcode:2012AstL...38..331A, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, S2CID 119257644.
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    Eggen, O. J. (1962), "Space-velocity vectors for 3483 stars with proper motion and radial velocity", Royal Observatory Bulletin, 51: 79, Bibcode:1962RGOB...51...79E.
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    De Medeiros, J. R.; et al. (November 2000), "Rotation and lithium in single giant stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 363: 239–243, arXiv:astro-ph/0010273, Bibcode:2000A&A...363..239D.
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    "62 Aur". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
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