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HD 164427 is a star with a likely red dwarf companion in the southern constellation of Pavo. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 6.88, placing it just below the nominal limit for visibility with the typical naked eye. The annual parallax shift of 23.5 mas yields a distance estimate of 139 light-years (43 parsecs). It is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +3.4 km/s.

This is an inactive G-type main-sequence star given a stellar classification of G0+V by Gray et al. (2006), although Evans et al. (1964) classified it as a subgiant star with luminosity class IV. It is 6.6 billion years old with 1.125 times the mass of the Sun and 1.40 times the Sun's radius. The star is somewhat over-luminous for its class, radiating 2.33 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,876 K.

Companions

In 2001, a brown dwarf candidate companion was announced by Anglo-Australian Planet Search program. It was detected by the Doppler velocity technique with an echelle spectrograph attached to the 3.92m Anglo-Australian Telescope. A magnitude 12.60 companion star designated HD 164427 B lies at an angular separation of 28.90″ along a position angle of 336°, as of 2010. This is a suspected common proper motion companion with 52% of the Sun's mass and a physical separation of as much as 1,090 AU.

HD 164427 b was initially thought to be a brown dwarf based on its minimum mass of 46 times that of Jupiter. In 2023, an astrometric orbit for this object was published using data from Gaia, showing its true mass to be 0.34 M_☉, making it a likely red dwarf star. This stellar companion orbits at nearly half an astronomical unit or Earth-to-Sun distance away from its primary. The angular separation between the two stars as viewed from Earth is 11.76 milliarcseconds. It takes 108.55 Earth days to orbit eccentrically around HD 164427. It has a very high semi-amplitude of almost 1400 m/s, because this is a very massive object which exerts strong gravitational pull on its tugging star.

References

1. ^ Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
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3. ^ Gray, R. O.; et al. (July 2006). "Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 parsecs: The Northern Sample I". The Astronomical Journal. 132 (1): 161–170. arXiv:astro-ph/0603770. Bibcode:2006AJ....132..161G. doi:10.1086/504637. S2CID 119476992.
4. ^ Holmberg, J.; et al. (July 2009). "The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the solar neighbourhood. III. Improved distances, ages, and kinematics". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 501 (3): 941–947. arXiv:0811.3982. Bibcode:2009A&A...501..941H. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200811191. S2CID 118577511.
5. ^ Unger, N.; Ségransan, D.; et al. (December 2023). "Exploring the brown dwarf desert with precision radial velocities and Gaia DR3 astrometric orbits". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 680: A16. arXiv:2310.02758. Bibcode:2023A&A...680A..16U. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347578.
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External links

• "NLTT 45831 -- High proper-motion Star". SIMBAD. Retrieved December 21, 2007.

v t e Constellation of Pavo
List of stars in Pavo Pavo in Chinese astronomy
Stars	Bayer α (Peacock) β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ τ υ φ φ ω Variable R V X Y SX AR BD KZ MW NU NZ V346 V347 HR 6586 6624 6634 6740 6760 6796 6805 6808 6828 6899 6908 6939 6996 7004 7012 7015 7022 7027 7111 7130 7161 7221 7278 7320 7383 7434 7435 7455 7498 7513 7527 7531 7558 7579 7587 7588 7644 7663 7691 7707 7732 7838 7872 7959 8019 8061 8073 8081 8125 8159 HD 161475 162521 164427 175007 175167 176522 179419 181433 186302 190984 192887 195190 195772 196050 Other Gliese 693 SCR 1845−6357 SCR 1826−6542
Exoplanets HD 175167 b HD 181433 b c d HD 190984 b HD 196050 b
Galaxies	NGC 6744 6753 6782 6810 6872 7020 7032 7059 Other Bedin I IC 4662 IC 4687 IC 4710 IC 4970 IC 5052 IRAS 19254-7245
Galaxy clusters NGC 6752
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• G-type main-sequence stars
• Red dwarfs
• Binary stars
• Pavo (constellation)
• Durchmusterung objects
• Gliese and GJ objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Hipparcos objects