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AB Pic

Unclassified star โ€ข 50.05 pc

Records

8

literature rows

Planets

1

system count

References

9

distinct source labels

HIP: HIP 30034HD: HD 44627TIC: TIC 260351540

Approximate color

from effective temperature

Canonical Summary

Adopted host values from one source row

Values come from the row with the most populated summary measurements. Missing values stay missing. Ranges and counts describe all source rows.

Stellar source: Ghezzi et al. 2010 โ€ข System source: TICv8

Temperature

5378 K

5027 to 5378

4 values โ€ข 4 distinct

Mass

0.90 Msun

0.84 to 0.90

2 values โ€ข 2 distinct

Radius

0.73 Rsun

0.73 to 1.02

3 values โ€ข 3 distinct

Age

1 Gyr

0.03 to 1

2 values โ€ข 2 distinct

Luminosity

-0.40 log(Lsun)

-0.40 to -0.22

3 values โ€ข 3 distinct

Distance

50.05 pc

single adopted value

8 values โ€ข 1 distinct

Planets

1

Stable across source rows

1

Scale Comparison

Radius against the Sun

Current adopted radius: 0.73 Rโ˜‰ (circles scaled linearly by radius)

Sun

1.0 Rโ˜‰ baseline

AB Pic

0.73 Rโ˜‰

System Layout

Known planets

1 planets linked to this host

AB Pic b

Imaging

โ—Œ

Discovery

2005

Period

โ€”

Radius

โ€”

Mass

4290.5 MโŠ•

Eq. Temp

โ€”

AB Pic and Its Imaged Companion

AB Pic is a K0 star 163 light-years away, with measurements placing its age at a reported upper limit of 1 billion years, its mass at 0.9 solar masses, its radius at 0.73 solar radii, and its temperature at 5380 K. The star's reported radius estimate is smaller than the Sun's, and its reported temperature is cooler than the Sun's. One planet is known to orbit this host.

That planet, AB Pic b, was discovered by imaging in 2005. Its reported mass estimate is 4290 Earth masses, larger than Earth's and roughly 13.5 times Jupiter's mass. No orbital period is reported for AB Pic b.

Provenance

Underlying measurements and references

Evidence Summary

Rows

8

Stellar refs

8

System refs

1

Distancestable

8 values โ€ข 1 distinct

Parallaxstable

8 values โ€ข 1 distinct

Temperaturedisputed

4 values โ€ข 4 distinct

Massdisputed

2 values โ€ข 2 distinct

Radiusdisputed

3 values โ€ข 3 distinct

Agedisputed

2 values โ€ข 2 distinct

Luminositydisputed

3 values โ€ข 3 distinct

Surface Gravitydisputed

3 values โ€ข 3 distinct

Metallicitydisputed

2 values โ€ข 2 distinct

Spectral Typedisputed

3 values โ€ข 2 distinct

ST TEFFST MASSST RADST AGEST LUMST SPECTYPESY DISTStellar RefSystem Ref
โ€”โ€”โ€”0.03โ€”K2 V50.05Chauvin et al. 2005TICv8
53780.900.731-0.40โ€”50.05Ghezzi et al. 2010TICv8
5068.5โ€”1.00โ€”-0.23โ€”50.05Gaia DR2TICv8
5285โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”50.05Swastik et al. 2021TICv8
โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”K050.05Cannon & Pickering 1918TICv8
50270.841.02โ€”-0.22โ€”50.05TICv8TICv8
โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”50.05Nordstrom et al. 2004TICv8
โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”K2 V50.05Michigan Catalog, Vol. 1TICv8