36 Ursae Majoris
{{short description|Double star in the constellation Ursa Major}}
{{Starbox begin
| name = 36 Ursae Majoris
}}
{{Starbox observe 2s
| epoch = J2000.0
| constell = Ursa Major
| component1 = A
| dec1 = {{DEC|+55|58|49.940}}
| component2 = B
| dec2 = {{DEC|+55|59|56.855}}
}}
{{Starbox character
| component1 = A
| type = main sequence
| r-i =
| component2 = B
| type2 = main sequence
| u-b2 =
| r-i2 =
}}
{{Starbox astrometry
| component1 = A
| parallax = 77.2485
| p_error = 0.0805
| component2 = B
| parallax2 = 77.4072
| p_error2 = 0.0182
}}
{{Starbox detail
| component1 = A
| component2 = B
}}
{{Starbox catalog
| names = 36 Ursae Majoris, WDS J10306+5559
| component1 = A
| names1 = BD+56°1459, FK5 394, HD 90839, HIP 51459, HR 4112, SAO 27670
| component2 = B
| names2 = BD+56°1458, HD 237903, SAO 27668
}}
{{starbox reference
|Simbad=36+UMa|sn=A
|Simbad3=TYC+3819-1043-1|sn3=B
}}
{{Starbox end}}
36 Ursae Majoris is a double star in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. With an apparent visual magnitude of 4.8, it can be seen with the naked eye in suitable dark skies. Based upon parallax measurements, this binary lies at a distance of {{Convert|42|ly|pc|abbr=off|lk=on}} from Earth.
The brighter star of the two is a solar analog—meaning it has physical properties that make it similar to the Sun. It has 10% more mass and a radius 17% larger than the Sun, with an estimated age of four billion years. The spectrum of this star matches a stellar classification of F8 V, which indicates this is a main sequence star that is generating energy at its core through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen. The energy is being radiated into space from its outer envelope at an effective temperature of {{val|6,066|ul=K|fmt=commas}}. This gives the star the characteristic yellow-white hue of an F-type star.
The fainter of the two stars has an apparent magnitude 8.86 and shares a common proper motion witIts spectral type of K7Ve indicates it is a red dwarf. Its has a mass 60% of the Sun's, a temperature of {{val|4,132|u=K|fmt=commas}} and a bolometric luminosity only 10% of the Sun's.
36 Ursae Majoris has a second companion with a magnitude of 11.44 located at an angular separation of 240.6″ along a position angle of 292°, as of 2004. It does not share the proper motion of the other two stars and is a more massive and luminous star but much further away.
Hunt for substellar objects
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According to Nelson & Angel (1998), 36 Ursae Majoris could host one or two (or at least three) jovian planets (or even brown dwarfs) at wide separations from the host star, with orbital periods of 10–15, 25 and 50 years respectively. The authors have set upper limits of 1.1–2, 5.3 and 24 Jupiter masses for the putative planetary objects. Also Lippincott (1983) had previously noticed the possible presence of a massive unseen companion (with nearly 70 times the mass of Jupiter, just below the stellar regime, thus a brown dwarf). Putative parameters for the substellar object show an orbital period of 18 years and quite a high eccentricity (e=0.8). Even Campbell et al. 1988 inferred the existence of planetary objects or even brown dwarfs less massive than 14 Jupiter masses around 36 Ursae Majoris.
Nevertheless, no certain planetary companion has yet been detected or confirmed. The McDonald Observatory team has set limits to the presence of one or more planets with masses between 0.13 and 2.5 Jupiter masses and average separations spanning between 0.05 and 5.2 AU.
An infrared excess has been detected around this star, most likely indicating the presence of a circumstellar disk at a radius of 38.6 AU. The temperature of this dust is {{val|50|u=K}}.
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External links
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998ApJ...500..940N The Range of Masses and Periods Explored by Radial Velocity Searches for Planetary Companions]
- [http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1983PASP...95..775L&db_key=AST&nosetcookie=1 An unseen companion to 36 Ursae Majoris A from analysis of plates taken with the Sproul 61-CM refractor]
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...413..349M A search for substellar companions to southern solar-type stars]
- [https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604171 Detection Limits from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search Program]
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