MWC 480

{{Short description|Star in the Taurus-Auriga star forming region of the constellation Auriga}}

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| caption = A visual band light curve for MWC 480, plotted from ASAS-SN data{{cite web |url=https://asas-sn.osu.edu/variables/lookup |website=ASAS-SN Variable Stars Database|title=ASAS-SN Variable Stars Database|publisher=ASAS-SN |access-date=6 January 2022}}

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|constell=Auriga

|epoch=J2000

|ra={{RA|04|58|46.2654}}{{cite DR2}}

|dec={{DEC|+29|50|36.990}}

|appmag_v=7.62{{cite journal|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201219110|title=Accretion-related properties of Herbig Ae/Be stars|year=2012|last1=Mendigutía|first1=I.|last2=Mora|first2=A.|last3=Montesinos|first3=B.|last4=Eiroa|first4=C.|last5=Meeus|first5=G.|last6=Merín|first6=B.|last7=Oudmaijer|first7=R. D.|s2cid=59384870|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|volume=543|pages=A59|doi-access=free|arxiv=1205.4734}}

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|class=A3psh3+

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{{Starbox astrometry

|prop_mo_ra=4.793

|prop_mo_dec=-25.348

|parallax=6.1815

|p_error=0.0761

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|temperature=8250

|age_myr=6–7.1{{cite journal|arxiv=2006.16187|doi=10.3847/1538-4357/ab7cc8|title=An Unbiased ALMA Spectral Survey of the Lk Ca 15 and MWC 480 Protoplanetary Disks|year=2020|last1=Loomis|first1=Ryan A.|last2=Öberg|first2=Karin I.|last3=Andrews|first3=Sean M.|last4=Bergin|first4=Edwin|last5=Bergner|first5=Jennifer|last6=Blake|first6=Geoffrey A.|last7=Cleeves|first7=L. Ilsedore|last8=Czekala|first8=Ian|last9=Huang|first9=Jane|last10=Le Gal|first10=Romane|last11=Ménard|first11=Francois|last12=Pegues|first12=Jamila|last13=Qi|first13=Chunhua|last14=Walsh|first14=Catherine|last15=Williams|first15=Jonathan P.|last16=Wilner|first16=David J.|s2cid=219077531|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|volume=893|issue=2|page=101|bibcode=2020ApJ...893..101L |doi-access=free }}

|luminosity=11.2

|radius=1.67

|mass=1.7-2.3

|rotational_velocity=102.0 ± 5.0{{cite journal|bibcode=2001A&A...378..116M|title=EXPORT: Spectral classification and projected rotational velocities of Vega-type and pre-main sequence stars|last1=Mora|first1=A.|last2=Merín|first2=B.|last3=Solano|first3=E.|last4=Montesinos|first4=B.|last5=De Winter|first5=D.|last6=Eiroa|first6=C.|last7=Ferlet|first7=R.|last8=Grady|first8=C. A.|last9=Davies|first9=J. K.|last10=Miranda|first10=L. F.|last11=Oudmaijer|first11=R. D.|last12=Palacios|first12=J.|last13=Quirrenbach|first13=A.|last14=Harris|first14=A. W.|last15=Rauer|first15=H.|last16=Collier Cameron|first16=A.|last17=Deeg|first17=H. J.|last18=Garzón|first18=F.|last19=Penny|first19=A.|last20=Schneider|first20=J.|last21=Tsapras|first21=Y.|last22=Wesselius|first22=P. R.|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics|year=2001|volume=378|page=116|doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20011098|doi-access=free}}

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|names={{odlist|HIP=23143|HD=31648|BD=+29 774|SAO=76866|2MASS=J04584626+2950370|GSC=01844-00503}}{{cite simbad|title=HD 31648|access-date=20 July 2020}}

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|Simbad=HD+31648

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MWC 480 is a single star, about 500 light-years away in the constellation of Auriga. It is located in the Taurus-Auriga Star-Forming Region.{{cite journal|arxiv=0911.5457|title=The Disk Population of the Taurus Star-Forming Region |author=K. L. Luhman |s2cid=119189843 |display-authors=etal|doi=10.1088/0067-0049/186/1/111|volume=186|issue=1 |journal=The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series|pages=111–174|bibcode = 2010ApJS..186..111L |year=2010 }} The name refers to the Mount Wilson Catalog of B and A stars with bright hydrogen lines in their spectra.{{cite web|url=http://www.circumstellardisks.org/show.php?id=101|title=Catalog of Resolved Circumstellar Disks|work=Circumstellardisks.org|access-date=2015-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205014851/http://circumstellardisks.org/show.php?id=101|archive-date=2015-02-05|url-status=dead}} With an apparent magnitude of 7.62, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye.