TVLM513-46546
Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 |
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Constellation | Boötes |
Right ascension | 15h 01m 08.187s |
Declination | +22° 50' 02.04"' |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | M8.5V |
Astrometry | |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: -55 mas/yr Dec.: -59 mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 92.92 ± 0.23[1] mas |
Distance | 35.10 ± 0.09 ly (10.76 ± 0.03 pc) |
Details | |
Mass | 0.09 M☉ |
Radius | 0.11 R☉ |
Luminosity | 0.00042 L☉ |
Temperature | 2,500 K |
Age | >1 billion years |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
Data sources: | |
Hipparcos Catalogue, CCDM (2002), Bright Star Catalogue (5th rev. ed.) |
TVLM513-46546 is an ultracool brown dwarf in the constellation Boötes, exhibiting a flare star activity and all the same varying semi-regularly due to dissimilarly bright hemispheres and a rotation period of about two days. The star has a mass as low as 90 times the mass of Jupiter (or 9 percent of Sun's mass) and an estimated radius of 11 percent that of Sun (nearly a Jupiter-sized star). The star also shows hints of an unseen companion with undetermined mass. Future monitoring will be able to confirm or rule out low-mass stellar or even planetary mass companions (down to 2-10 Jupiter masses), with orbital periods spanning between 1 and 15 days.[2] Assuming a stellar luminosity of 0.042 percent that of Sun, the habitable zone where an Earth-like planet may retain liquid water at comfortable temperatures would be located within 0.02 Astronomical Units (roughly 10 times the distance of the Moon from Earth).
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