Third closest star system discovered
Posted: 18.02.2003, 16:16
by Ynjevi
red dwarf SO025300.5+165258 - closest star system after Alpha Centauri and Barnard's star
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2776229.stm
Posted: 18.02.2003, 16:47
by selden
See
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302206 for a formal abstract of the original paper. They'll be publishing another paper soon describing 400 other previously uncatalogued stars with high proper motion!
Posted: 18.02.2003, 16:54
by selden
Some of the parameters reported in the paper at
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0302/0302206.pdf
RA: 42.24369 deg
Dec: 16.89200 deg
Absolute Vis mag: 18.5 (+/- 0.7)
Spectral type: M 6.5 V
Distance: 2.3 (+1/-0.5) parsecs
Posted: 18.02.2003, 20:17
by JackHiggins
Hey
there's probably a simple answer to this that i've missed- but how would I add this star to celestia?!
Thanx!