Star in the constellation Boötes
40 Boötis is a single[ 8] star located 166.5 light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Boötes . It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.64.[ 2] The star is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +12 km/s.[ 5]
The Hipparcos catalogue (1997) lists a stellar classification of F1 III–IV,[ 9] matching the luminosity class of an aging star that is evolving into a giant .[ 3] Earlier, Cowley and Bidelman (1979) listed a class of F2 III,[ 10] while Sato and Kuji (1990) found a main sequence class of F0V.[ 11] It is around 1.2[ 6] billion years old with a relatively high rotation rate, showing a projected rotational velocity of 72.5 km/s.[ 3] The star has 1.5[ 6] times the mass of the Sun and 2.4[ 1] times the Sun's radius . It is radiating 11.6[ 1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 7,070 K.[ 6]
References
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^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 389 (2): 869– 879, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .
^ ESA (1997), "The HIPPARCOS and TYCHO catalogues. Astrometric and photometric star catalogues derived from the ESA HIPPARCOS Space Astrometry Mission", Esa Special Publication , 1200 , Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, Bibcode :1997ESASP1200.....E .
^ Cowley, A. P.; Bidelman, W. P. (February 1979), "MK spectral types for some F and G stars", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific , 91 : 83– 86, Bibcode :1979PASP...91...83C , doi :10.1086/130446 .
^ Sato, K.; Kuji, S. (November 1990), "MK classification and photometry of stars used for time and latitude observations at Mizusawa and Washington", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series , 85 (3): 1069– 1087, Bibcode :1990A&AS...85.1069S .