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Star in the constellation Virgo
53 Virginis is a single,
[10] yellow-white hued
star in the
zodiac
constellation of
Virgo . It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an
apparent visual magnitude of 5.04.
[2] Based upon an annual
parallax shift of 29.49± 0.29
mas ,
[1] it is located 111
light years away. The star is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric
radial velocity of −12.7 km/s.
[4] It has a relatively high rate of
proper motion , traversing the
celestial sphere at the rate of 284± 18 mas/yr along a
position angle of 162.2°.
[11]
Gray et al. (2006) assigned this star a
stellar classification of F5.5 V,
[3] matching an ordinary
F-type main-sequence star . Older studies, such as Malaroda (1975)
[12] or Eggen (1955),
[13] listed a class of F5 III-IV or F6 III-IV, suggesting a more
evolved condition. It is spinning with a
projected rotational velocity of 13.5
[5] km/s and appears to be undergoing
differential rotation .
[10] The star is nearly three
[6] billion years old, with 1.21
[6] times the
mass of the Sun and about three times the
Sun's radius .
[7] It is radiating over nine
[2] times the
Sun's luminosity from its
photosphere at an
effective temperature of around 6,346 K.
[6]
The star has three
visual companions , the nearest being a magnitude 12.5 star located at an
angular separation of 104.10
″ along a
position angle of 1°, as of 2000.
[14]
References
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arXiv :
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S2CID
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arXiv :
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S2CID
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arXiv :
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S2CID
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S2CID
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doi :
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