HD 98649
star in the constellation Crater
HD 98649 is a star with an orbiting exoplanet in the southern Crater constellation. Based on parallax measurements, it is situated at a distance of 137.5 light years from the Sun. The system is drifting further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of 4.3 km/s. With an apparent visual magnitude of +8.00, it is too faint to be viewed with the naked eye. The system has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at an angular rate of 0.24″·yr−1.
The spectrum of HD 98649 presents as an ordinary G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G3/5V. It is around 4.4 billion years old and is spinning slowly with a rotation period of roughly 27 days. The star is similar to the Sun, having nearly the same size, mass, and luminosity. It is considered a solar analog. The level of magnetic activity in the chromosphere is minimal.
Planetary system
From 1998 to 2012, the star was under observance from the CORALIE echelle spectrograph at La Silla Observatory.
The public source identifies “HD 98649” as star in the constellation Crater. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around star, constellation and Crater.
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