HD 191806 is a star located in the northern constellation Cygnus. With an apparent magnitude of 8.093, it's undetectable with the naked eye, but can be seen with binoculars. HD 191806 is currently placed at a distance of 215 light years based on parallax measurements and is drifting towards the Solar System with a spectroscopic radial velocity of −15.28 km/s.
HD 191806 has a stellar classification of G0V,[3] indicating that it is a G-type main sequence star. It has 110% the mass of the Sun[5] and a slightly enlarged radius of 1.48 R☉.[6] It radiates at 2.23 times the luminosity of the Sun[7] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,894 K,[5] giving a yellow hue. HD 191806 is estimated to be about 3 billion years old and has a metallicity nearly twice of the Sun's.[7] It spins with a projected rotational velocity of 3.3 km/s, which corresponds to a rotational period of 21 days.[7]
Planetary System[edit]
Observations for exoplanets orbiting the star began in 2007 when it was selected by the N2K Consortium as a potential host due to its high metallicity.[9] After ten years of, a team of astronomers found a super Jupiter orbiting the star.[7] The star has a secular acceleration of >11 km/s, suggesting either the presence of a stellar companion or another planet.[7] In 2022, the inclination and true mass of HD 191806 b were measured via astrometry.[10]
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^ abPickles, A.; Depagne, É. (2010). "All-Sky Spectrally Matched UBVRI - ZY and u′ g′ r′ i′ z′ Magnitudes for Stars in the Tycho2 Catalog". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 122 (898): 1437. arXiv:1011.2020. Bibcode:2010PASP..122.1437P. doi:10.1086/657947. S2CID 54678796.
^ abcAllende Prieto, C.; Lambert, D. L. (December 1999). "Fundamental parameters of nearby stars from the comparison with evolutionary calculations: masses, radii and effective temperatures". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 352: 555–562. arXiv:astro-ph/9911002. Bibcode:1999A&A...352..555A. ISSN 0004-6361.