HAT-P-9
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HAT-P-9 is a magnitude 12 F-type star approximately 1500 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. A search for a binary companion star using adaptive optics at the MMT Observatory was negative.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Em*
- Spectral type
- F
- Distance
- 1,508 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.0000753683118601689
- Coordinates
- RA 110.1686° · Dec 37.1407°
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- spectral class
- F5
- catalog code
- HAT-P-9
- apparent magnitude
- 12.146357
- absolute magnitude
- 3.7
- effective temperature
- 6350
- parallax
- 2.1626
- epoch
- J2000.0
- metallicity
- 0.112
- stellar rotational velocity
- 13.4
- surface gravity
- 20940
- name
- Tevel
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -9.796
- declination component of proper motion
- -13.029
- right ascension
- 110.16856858918001
- declination
- 37.14065078585001
- radial velocity
- 17.25
- age estimated by a dating method
- 1.6
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HAT-P-9 is a magnitude 12 F-type star approximately 1500 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. A search for a binary companion star using adaptive optics at the MMT Observatory was negative.
==Naming== The star HAT-P-9 is named Tevel. The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Israel, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU. The Hebrew word תֵבֵל tevel means "World" or "Universe".
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