Luminosity (bolometric) 2.15 L☉ Magnitude 5.19 | ARICNS data Apparent magnitude (V) 5.19 | |
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59 Virginis (e Virginis, HR 5011, Gliese 504) is a G-type main-sequence star, located in constellation Virgo at approximately 57 light-years from Earth.
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In 2013 a Jovian planet, b, was discovered by direct imaging of the system.
History of observations
59 Virginis is known to astronomers at least from 1598, when it was catalogued by Tycho Brahe in his manuscript catalogue of 1004 fixed stars. Brahe designated it as "Parvula sequens vindemiatricem", which means in Latin "A tiny following Vindemiatrix" (that is Epsilon Virginis), and assigned it a visual magnitude 6 (a modern value of its apparent magnitude (in band V) is 5.22). Five years later in 1603 Johann Bayer pictured it on constellation Virgo folio of his celestial atlas "Uranometria" and designated it with number 37, letter "e" (hence its Bayer designation e Virginis, or e Vir) and name "Alæ dextræ sequens", which means in Latin "Following right wing". Bayer also assigned it a visual magnitude 6.
Four hundred ten years later in 2013 July Kuzuhara et al. announced discovery of orbiting this star planet b. The discovery was made using 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope of Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.
Distance
59 Virginis distance estimates
The best estimate is marked in bold.
Age and other characteristics
The star is a young Sun-like star of spectral type G0V with age estimate 160+350
−60 Myr and effective temperature 6234 ± 25 K (not much hotter than the Sun). It is also slightly brighter than the Sun, its log (L/L⊙) is 0.332 ± 0.032. Its rotation period is 3.329 days.