{{Short description|Star in the constellation Taurus}} {{Starbox begin}} {{Starbox image | image = {{Location mark |image=Taurus_IAU.svg|alt=|float=center|width=280 |label=|position=right |mark=Red circle.svg|mark_width=16|mark_link=Mu Tauri |x%=63.5|y%=59.8 }} | caption = Location of μ Tauri (circled) }} {{Starbox observe | epoch = J2000 | constell = Taurus | ra = {{RA|04|15|32.05806}}<ref name=GaiaDR3/> | dec = {{DEC|+08|53|32.4783}}<ref name=GaiaDR3/> | appmag_v = 4.27<ref name=XHIP/> }} {{Starbox character | type = main sequence<ref name=GaiaDR3/> | class = B3IV<ref name=Lesh1968/> | b-v = −0.05<ref name=Mallama2014/> | u-b = −0.51<ref name=Mallama2014/> | variable = }} {{Starbox astrometry | radial_v = {{Val|+16.3|0.6}}<ref name=Gontcharov2006/> | prop_mo_ra = +19.770<ref name=GaiaDR3/> | prop_mo_dec = −21.918<ref name=GaiaDR3/> | parallax = 6.4463 | p_error = 0.2095 | parallax_footnote = <ref name=GaiaDR3/> | absmag_v = −1.45<ref name=XHIP/> }} {{Starbox detail | mass = 6.7<ref name=Tetzlaff2011/> | radius = 6.9<ref name=mcdonald2017/> | temperature = 16,980<ref name=Soubiran2016/> | luminosity = 325<ref name=mcdonald2017/> | gravity = 3.75<ref name=Soubiran2016/> | metal_fe = −0.16<ref name=XHIP/> | rotational_velocity = 89<ref name=Hoffleit1991/> | age_myr = 252<ref name=Gontcharov2012/> }} {{Starbox catalog | names = {{odlist | B=μ Tau | F=49 Tauri | BD=+08°657 | FK5=1118 | HD=26912 | HIP=116820 | HR=1320 | SAO=111696 | GC=5134 | GSC=00667-00839 }}<ref name=SIMBAD/> }} {{Starbox reference | Simbad = mu+tau }} {{Starbox end}}
'''μ Tauri''', Latinized as '''Mu Tauri''', is a single<ref name=Eggleton2008/> star in the equatorial constellation of Taurus. It has a blue-white hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.27.<ref name=XHIP/> The star is located approximately 510 light years distant from the Sun based on parallax,<ref name=GaiaDR3/> and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +16 km/s.<ref name=Gontcharov2006/>
This object has a stellar classification of B3IV,<ref name=Lesh1968/> matching a B-type subgiant star. In the past this star was thought to have a variable radial velocity, but is now considered constant.<ref name=Percy1977/> It is 252<ref name=Gontcharov2012/> million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 89 km/s.<ref name=Hoffleit1991/> The star has 6.7 times the mass of the Sun<ref name=Tetzlaff2011/> and is radiating 325 times the Sun's luminosity<ref name=mcdonald2017/> from its photosphere at an effective temperature of {{val|fmt=commas|16,980|ul=K}}.<ref name=Soubiran2016/> It is emitting an infrared excess at a wavelength of {{Val|18|ul=μm}}, making it a candidate host of a faint warm debris disk.<ref name=Ishihara2017/>
==References== <references> <ref name=GaiaDR3>{{cite Gaia DR3|3299306676068154752}}</ref>
<ref name=SIMBAD>{{cite simbad | title=mu Tau}}</ref>
<ref name=Ishihara2017>{{cite journal | title=Faint warm debris disks around nearby bright stars explored by AKARI and IRSF | last1=Ishihara | first1=Daisuke | last2=Takeuchi | first2=Nami | last3=Kobayashi | first3=Hiroshi | last4=Nagayama | first4=Takahiro | last5=Kaneda | first5=Hidehiro | last6=Inutsuka | first6=Shu-ichiro | last7=Fujiwara | first7=Hideaki | last8=Onaka | first8=Takashi | journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics | display-authors=1 | volume=601 | id=A72 | pages=18 | date=May 2017 | bibcode=2017A&A...601A..72I | arxiv=1608.04480 | doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201526215 | s2cid=55234482 }}</ref>
<ref name=Eggleton2008>{{cite journal | last1=Eggleton | first1=P. P. | last2=Tokovinin | first2=A. A. | title=A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems | journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | volume=389 | issue=2 | pages=869–879 | date=September 2008 | bibcode=2008MNRAS.389..869E | arxiv=0806.2878 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x | doi-access=free | s2cid=14878976 }}</ref>
<ref name=Percy1977>{{cite journal | title=Search for Beta Cephei stars. I - Photometric and spectroscopic studies of northern B-type stars | last1=Percy | first1=J. R. | last2=Lane | first2=M. C. | journal=Astronomical Journal | volume=82 | pages=353–359 | date=May 1977 | doi=10.1086/112057 | bibcode=1977AJ.....82..353P }}</ref>
<ref name=Lesh1968>{{citation | last=Lesh | first=Janet Rountree | title=The Kinematics of the Gould Belt: an Expanding Group? | journal=Astrophysical Journal Supplement | volume=17 | page=371 | date=December 1968 | doi=10.1086/190179 | bibcode=1968ApJS...17..371L | doi-access=free }}</ref>
<ref name=Gontcharov2012>{{citation | title=Spatial distribution and kinematics of OB stars | last1=Gontcharov | first1=G. A. | journal=Astronomy Letters | volume=38 | issue=11 | pages=694–706 | date=November 2012 | bibcode=2012AstL...38..694G | arxiv=1606.09028 | doi=10.1134/S1063773712110035 | s2cid=119108982 }}</ref>
<ref name=XHIP>{{cite journal | bibcode=2012AstL...38..331A | doi=10.1134/S1063773712050015 | arxiv=1108.4971 | title=XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation | journal=Astronomy Letters | volume=38 | issue=5 | pages=331 | year=2012 | last1=Anderson | first1=E. | last2=Francis | first2=Ch. | s2cid=119257644 }} [http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-4?-source=V/137D/XHIP&HIP=19860 Vizier catalog entry]</ref>
<ref name=Hoffleit1991>{{cite journal | last1=Hoffleit | first1=D. | last2=Warren | first2=W. H. | title=Bright Star Catalogue | edition=5th Revised | journal=VizieR On-line Data Catalog: V/50. Originally Published in: 1964BS....C......0H | volume=5050 | year=1995 | bibcode=1995yCat.5050....0H }}</ref>
<ref name=Mallama2014>{{cite journal | last=Mallama | first=A. | title=Sloan Magnitudes for the Brightest Stars | journal=The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers | volume=42 | pages=443 | year=2014 | issue=2 | bibcode=2014JAVSO..42..443M }}[http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-4?-source=J/other/JAVSO/42.443/ugriz&HD=026912 Vizier catalog entry]</ref>
<ref name=Gontcharov2006>{{Cite journal | last=Gontcharov| first=G. A. | title=Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system | journal=Astronomy Letters | volume=32 | issue=11 | pages=759–771 | year=2006 | bibcode=2006AstL...32..759G | arxiv=1606.08053 | doi=10.1134/S1063773706110065 | s2cid=119231169 }}</ref>
<ref name=Tetzlaff2011>{{cite journal | display-authors=1 | last1=Tetzlaff | first1=N. | last2=Neuhäuser | first2=R. | last3=Hohle | first3=M. M. | title=A catalogue of young runaway Hipparcos stars within 3 kpc from the Sun | journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | volume=410 | pages=190–200 | year=2011 | issue=1 | bibcode=2011MNRAS.410..190T | arxiv=1007.4883 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17434.x | doi-access=free | s2cid=118629873 }} [http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-4?-source=J/MNRAS/410/190/table1&HIP=19860 Vizier catalog entry]</ref>
<ref name=Soubiran2016>{{cite journal | last1=Soubiran | first1=Caroline | last2=Le Campion | first2=Jean-François | last3=Brouillet | first3=Nathalie | last4=Chemin | first4=Laurent | title=The PASTEL catalogue: 2016 version | display-authors=1 | journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics | volume=591 | pages=A118 | year=2016 | bibcode=2016A&A...591A.118S | arxiv=1605.07384 | doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201628497 | s2cid=119258214 }}</ref>
<ref name=mcdonald2017>{{cite journal |last1=McDonald |first1=I. |last2=Zijlstra |first2=A. A. |last3=Watson |first3=R. A. |title=Fundamental parameters and infrared excesses of Tycho-Gaia stars |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |date=2017 |volume=471 |issue=1 |page=770 |doi=10.1093/mnras/stx1433 |doi-access=free |arxiv=1706.02208 |bibcode=2017MNRAS.471..770M }}</ref>
</references>
{{Stars of Taurus}} <!-- Properties -->
Category:B-type subgiants Category:Circumstellar disks <!-- Identifiers --> Category:Taurus (constellation) Tauri, Mu BD+08 657 Tauri, 49 026912 019860 1320