18 Boötis
Star in the constellation Boötes
18 Boötis is a single[ 9] star in the northern constellation of Boötes ,[ 8] located about 85 light years away from the Sun.[ 1] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.41.[ 2] This object is a suspected member of the Ursa Major Moving Group , based on velocity criteria.[ 10] It has a magnitude 10.84 optical companion at an angular separation of 163.7″ along a position angle of 219°, as of 2010.[ 11]
This is an F-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of F3 V.[ 3] Older surveys gave a class of F5 IV,[ 12] showing the luminosity class of a subgiant star . It shows strong evidence for short-term chromospheric variability, although it is not optically variable.[ 13]
18 Boötis is an estimated 1.15[ 4] billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 40.5 km/s.[ 7] It has 1.3[ 4] times the mass of the Sun and 1.4[ 5] times the Sun's radius . The star is radiating 3.9[ 2] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,731 K.[ 4] An infrared excess has been detected that suggests a cold debris disk is orbiting 34.9 AU from the host star with a blackbody temperature fit of 65 K.[ 5]
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^ a b Ammler-von Eiff, Matthias; Reiners, Ansgar (June 2012), "New measurements of rotation and differential rotation in A-F stars: are there two populations of differentially rotating stars?", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 542 : A116, arXiv :1204.2459 , Bibcode :2012A&A...542A.116A , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201118724 , S2CID 53666672 .
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^ Rachford, Brian L.; Foight, Dillon R. (June 2009), "Chromospheric Variability in Early F-Type Stars", The Astrophysical Journal , 698 (1): 786– 802, arXiv :0904.1620 , Bibcode :2009ApJ...698..786R , doi :10.1088/0004-637X/698/1/786 , S2CID 693296 .