HD 3167

HD 3167
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Pisces
Right ascension 00h 34m 57.524s[1]
Declination +04° 22′ 53.28″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 8.97[2]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage Main sequence
Spectral type K0 V[3]
B−V color index 0.827±0.021
Variable type Constant[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+19.5±0.1[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +107.569 mas/yr[1]
Dec.: −173.334 mas/yr[1]
Parallax (π)21.1363 ± 0.0187 mas[1]
Distance154.3 ± 0.1 ly
(47.31 ± 0.04 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)5.67[2]
Details[5][6]
Mass0.837+0.053
−0.043
 M
Radius0.880+0.012
−0.013
 R
Luminosity0.56[2] L
Surface gravity (log g)4.47±0.05 cgs
Temperature5,261±60 K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.04±0.05 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)1.7±1.1 km/s
Age7.8±4.3 Gyr
Other designations
K2-96, BD+03° 68, HD 3167, HIP 2736, LTT 10198, EPIC 220383386, 2MASS J00345752+0422531[7]
Database references
SIMBADdata

HD 3167 is a single,[4] orange-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces that hosts a system with three exoplanets.[8][9] The star is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 8.97.[2] The distance to HD 3167 can be determined from its annual parallax shift of 21.1363 mas as measured by the Gaia space observatory,[1] yielding a range of 154 light years. It has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at the rate of 0.204 per year.[10] Since it was first photographed during the Palomar observatory sky survey in 1953, it had moved over 12.5″ by 2017.[5] The star is moving away from the Earth with an average heliocentric radial velocity of +19.5 km/s.[4]

This is an ordinary K-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of K0 V[3] and no significant variability.[2] The star has 86% of the mass of the Sun and 86% of the Sun's radius.[5] It is a chromospherically inactive[4] star and is radiating 56%[2] of the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,261 K. The spin of the star displays a relatively low projected rotational velocity of around 1.7 km/s. It has a near solar metallicity – a term astronomers use for the proportion of elements other than hydrogen and helium in a stellar atmosphere.[5]

In 2019, a group of astronomers first reported that the orbits of the detected exoplanets hosted by the star are oddly unusual: two planets (HD 3167 c; HD 3167 d) revolve around the star on polar orbits, i.e. orbits that pass over the poles of the star.[11] Later, in October 2021, the third planet (HD 3167 b) was found to orbit around the equator of the star instead, while confirming the other planets' orbital inclinations from the 2019 study.[12][13]

  1. ^ a b c d e Cite error: The named reference GaiaDR3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Cite error: The named reference Anderson2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Houk1999 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference Vandenburg2016 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference Christiansen2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bonomo2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference SIMBAD was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Anderson2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Nowakowski2016 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lepine2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Dalal, Shweta; et al. (2019), "Nearly polar orbit of the sub-Neptune HD 3167 c. Constraints on the dynamical history of a multi-planet system", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 631 (A28): 12, arXiv:1906.11013, Bibcode:2019A&A...631A..28D, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935944
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT-20211106 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference AAA-20211027 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).