Gamma1 Octantis
{{Short description|Yellow-hued giant star in the constellation Octans}}
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{{other stars by Bayer designation|Gamma Octantis{{!}}γ Octantis}}
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| name = γ1 Octantis
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{{Location mark
|image=Octans constellation map.svg|alt=|float=center|width=280
|label=|position=right
|mark=Red circle.svg|mark_width=10|mark_link=Gamma1 Octantis
|x=350|y=552
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|caption=Location of γ1 Octantis (circled)
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{{Starbox observe
| epoch = J2000
| constell = Octans
| dec = {{DEC|-82|01|07.7636}}
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{{Starbox character
| type = red clump{{cite journal | bibcode=2008AstL...34..785G | doi=10.1134/S1063773708110078 | arxiv=1607.00619 | title=Red giant clump in the Tycho-2 catalogue | journal=Astronomy Letters | volume=34 | issue=11 | pages=785–796 | year=2009 | last1=Gontcharov | first1=G. A. | s2cid=73524157 }} [http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-4?-source=J/PAZh/34/868/table&HIP=117689 Vizier catalog entry]
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{{Starbox astrometry
| parallax = 12.1790
| p_error = 0.0552
| parallax_footnote = {{cite Gaia DR3|6350681790832883840}}
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{{Starbox catalog
| names = {{odlist | B=γ1 Oct | CPD=−82°905 | FK5=3997 | HD=223647 | HIP=117689 | HR=9032 | SAO=258989 | GC=33107 | Gould = 86 G. Octantis }}{{Cite simbad|title=HD 223647|access-date= 7 June 2022}}{{cite journal | last=Gould | first=Benjamin Apthorp | title=Uranometria Argentina : brillantez y posicion de las estrellas fijas, hasta la septima magnitud, comprendidas dentro de cien grados del polo austral : con atlas | journal=Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino | volume=1 | bibcode=1879RNAO....1.....G | year=1878 | page=}}
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{{Starbox reference
| Simbad = Gamma1+Octantis
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Gamma1 Octantis, Latinized from γ1 Octantis, is a single,{{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 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x | doi-access=free | bibcode=2008MNRAS.389..869E |arxiv = 0806.2878 | s2cid=14878976 }} yellow-hued star in the constellation which includes the southern celestial pole, Octans. Its apparent visual magnitude is 5.10, meaning that in good conditions it is bright enough to be faintly visible to the naked eye.
Distance and proper motion
Based upon an annual parallax shift of {{val|12.2|ul=mas}} which is taken during opposing points of the Earth's orbit of the sun (with compensation for its eccentricity), the star is about 268 light years away. Its (proper) motion has a net vector at present of receding from the Sun, at +15.4 km/s.
Characteristics
This is an evolved G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G7 III. It is a red clump star, which means it is generating energy through helium fusion at its core. The star has an estimated 1.81 times the mass of the Sun and it has expanded to over 10 times the Sun's radius and is radiating 60 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of {{val|fmt=commas|5,017|ul=K}}.
References
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Category:Horizontal-branch stars