Eta Chamaeleontis

Eta Chamaeleontis, Latinized from η Chamaeleontis, is a star in the constellation Chamaeleon. It has an apparent magnitude of about 5.5, meaning that it is just barely visible to the naked eye. Based upon parallax measurements, this star is located some 325 light-years (100 parsecs) light years (95 parsecs) away from the Sun.^[1]

Eta Chamaeleontis

Location of η Chamaeleontis (circled)
Observation data Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation	Chamaeleon
Right ascension	08h 41m 19.51442s[1]
Declination	−78° 57′ 48.1023″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)	5.453[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type	B8V[3]
U−B color index	–0.34[4]
B−V color index	–0.10[4]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)	14.00[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ)	RA: −29.776[1] mas/yr Dec.: 26.600[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)	10.0442 ± 0.0912 mas[1]
Distance	325 ± 3 ly (99.6 ± 0.9 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)	+0.57[6]
Details
Mass	3.20+0.06 −0.07[7] M☉
Radius	3.3[8] R☉
Luminosity	99.81±52.10[7] L☉
Temperature	12,487±98[9] K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)	390[9] km/s
Age	8–14[7] Myr
Other designations
η Cha, CPD–78° 372, GC 12063, HD 75416, HIP 42637, HR 3502, SAO 256543[3]
Database references
SIMBAD	data

Eta Chamaeleontis has a spectral type of B8V, meaning it is a B-type main sequence star.^[3] Stars of this type are typically a few times more massive than the Sun and have effective temperatures of about 10,000 to 30,000 K. Eta Chamaeleontis is just over 3 times more massive than the Sun^[7] and has a temperature of about 12,000 K.^[9]

Eta Chamaeleontis cluster

Eta Chamaeleontis is the brightest and most massive member of the eponymous Eta Chamaeleontis cluster (also known as the Eta Chamaeleontis association or Mamajek 1, pronounced /ˈmæmədʒɛk/), a very nearby (316 light years), and young (8 million years old) stellar moving group discovered in 1999.^[10] The cluster contains nearly 20 stellar members spread out over a 40-arcminute diameter region of sky, including the neighboring A-type star HD 75505 and the eclipsing binary RS Cha.^[11] The eclipsing binary RS Cha is a well-constrained system which enables precise age-dating, which recent results yield an age of 9 million years.^[12] All of the low-mass members (including RS Cha) are pre-main sequence, and several of them appear to still be accreting from protoplanetary disks. Although containing only about 20 members, the cluster appears to be the densest stellar cluster within 100 pc (~30 solar masses per cubic parsec).^[13]

Map of stars and open clusters within 100 parsecs of the Sun. Eta Chamaeleontis is near the map edge at 290° galactic longitude.

References

1. Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
2. Høg, E.; et al. (2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355: L27–L30. Bibcode:2000A&A...355L..27H.
3. "eta Del". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
4. Cousins, A. W. J.; Stoy, R. H. (1962). "Photoelectric magnitudes and colours of Southern stars". Royal Observatory Bulletin. 64: 103. Bibcode:1962RGOB...64..103C. (Accessed using SIMBAD)
5. Kharchenko, N. V.; et al. (2007). "Astrophysical supplements to the ASCC-2.5: Ia. Radial velocities of ~55000 stars and mean radial velocities of 516 Galactic open clusters and associations". Astronomische Nachrichten. 328 (9): 889. arXiv:0705.0878. Bibcode:2007AN....328..889K. doi:10.1002/asna.200710776. S2CID 119323941.
6. Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters, 38 (5): 331, arXiv:1108.4971, Bibcode:2012AstL...38..331A, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, S2CID 119257644.
7. Esposito, Thomas M.; et al. (July 2020). "Debris Disk Results from the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey's Polarimetric Imaging Campaign". The Astronomical Journal. 160 (1): 44. arXiv:2004.13722. Bibcode:2020AJ....160...24E. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab9199. S2CID 216641889. 24.
8. Pasinetti Fracassini, L. E.; et al. (2001). "Catalogue of Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (CADARS) - Third edition - Comments and statistics". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 367 (2): 521–24. arXiv:astro-ph/0012289. Bibcode:2001A&A...367..521P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20000451. S2CID 425754.
9. Paunzen, E.; Schnell, A.; Maitzen, H. M. (2005). "An empirical temperature calibration for the Δ a photometric system . I. The B-type stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 444 (3): 941–946. arXiv:astro-ph/0509049. Bibcode:2005A&A...444..941P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20053546. S2CID 119436374.
10. "eta cha cluster". sim-basic. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
11. Mamajek, E.E.; Lawson, W.A.; Feigelson, E.D. (1999). "The eta Chamaeleontis Cluster: A Remarkable New Nearby Young Open Cluster". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 516 (2): L77–L80. Bibcode:1999ApJ...516L..77M. doi:10.1086/312005.
12. Alecian, E.; Lebreton, Y.; Goupil, M.-J.; Dupret, M.-A.; Catala, C. (2007). "Impact of the new solar abundances on the calibration of the PMS binary system RS Chamaeleontis". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 473 (1): 181–184. arXiv:0707.2609. Bibcode:2007A&A...473..181A. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20077332.
13. Mamajek, Eric (January 2016). "A Pre-Gaia Census of Nearby Stellar Groups". In J. H. Kastner; B. Stelzer; S. A. Metchev (eds.). Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Volume 10, Symposium S314 (Young Stars & Planets Near the Sun). Vol. 314. Atlanta, GA, USA. pp. 21–26. arXiv:1507.06697. Bibcode:2016IAUS..314...21M. doi:10.1017/S1743921315006250.

General

• http://www.alcyone.de/cgi-bin/search.pl?object=HR3502 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
• http://server3.wikisky.org/starview?object_type=1&object_id=2968
• http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=HR+3502&submit=SIMBAD+search
• "WEBDA open cluster database entry for Mamajek 1"