Nu_Pictoris

Nu Pictoris

Nu Pictoris

Star in the constellation Pictor

ν Pictoris, Latinized as Nu Pictoris, is a binary star system in the southern Pictor constellation. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.60.[2] The system is located around 157 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +7 km/s.[2]

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Hipparcos satellite astrometry showed that ν Pictoris moved in a way that was not consistent with the proper motion and annual parallax of a single star. The unusual measurements were not readily identifiable as being due to orbital motion, and it was referred to as having a stochastic solution to its astrometry. Later analysis derived an orbit, although nothing is known about the companion except its approximate mass and motion about the visible star.[5]

The pair orbit each other with a period of 452 days and an eccentricity of 0.2.[5] The primary, component A, is a metal-lined Am star with a stellar classification of A1mA3-A9.[3] It has 2.2 times the radius of the Sun and is radiating 15 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 7,733 K.[6] The secondary, component B, has around one fourth the mass of the primary.[8][5] The system is a source for X-ray emission, which is most likely coming from the companion.[9]

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