Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
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Constellation | Centaurus |
Right ascension | 13h 04m 57.47645s [1] |
Declination | −52° 26′ 34.5284″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 9.05 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | K9Vk: [3] |
B−V color index | 1.362±0.009 [2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | 39.23±0.012 [4] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) |
RA: −786.038
[1]
mas/
yr Dec.: −795.591 [1] mas/ yr |
Parallax (π) | 61.3899 ± 0.0523 mas [1] |
Distance | 53.13 ± 0.05
ly (16.29 ± 0.01 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | 8.03 [4] |
Details [4] | |
Mass | 0.585±0.05 M☉ |
Radius | 0.53±0.02 R☉ |
Luminosity | 0.127 [1] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 3.79±0.53 cgs |
Temperature | 4,462±145 K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.24±0.06 dex |
Age | 4.3±4.0 Gyr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
HD 113538 (Gliese 496.1) is a star with two planetary companions in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is much too faint to be viewed with the naked eye at an apparent visual magnitude of 9.05. [2] The distance to this star is 53 light years and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +39 km/s. [4]
This is a K-type main-sequence star of a late spectral type, classified as K9Vk:. It displays chromospheric activity with a stellar cycle of at least four years and is metal poor. [4] The star has 58.5% of the mass and 53% of the radius of the Sun. [4] It is radiating just 12.7% [1] of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,462 K. [4]
Radial velocity variation of HD 113538 was inferred from observations with the HARPS spectrograph. The star is active (Log R'HK −4.697, [6] SMW 1.05 [4]), but the RV variation is not correlated with activity, indicating that planets are responsible. The data is fitted well by a solution including two planets, with an eccentric Saturn-mass planet and a more massive planet on a longer-period orbit [7]—similar to the orbital architecture of the planetary system orbiting HD 163607, though with lower masses. Similar to HD 163607 b, the eccentricity and argument of periastron of HD 113538 b increases the planet's transit probability substantially more than it would be on a circular orbit.
Companion (in order from star) |
Mass |
Semimajor axis ( AU) |
Orbital period ( days) |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
b | ≥ 0.36±0.04 MJ | 1.24±0.04 | 663.2+8.4 −7.4 |
0.14±0.08 | — | — |
c | ≥ 0.93±0.06 MJ | 2.44±0.07 | 1,818+25 −22 |
0.20±0.04 | — | — |