LHS 2065 is a red dwarf star, one of the smallest stars ever found with around 8.2% the mass of the Sun and a diameter only 10% greater than Jupiter.[6] It is one of the few ultracool dwarfs known to have flare activity, emitting one flare every 33 hours,[5] and is also an active X-ray emitter.[4]

Parallax measurements by the Gaia spacecraft give a distance of 8.66 parsecs (28.2 ly) to LHS 2065.[2] This star was first recorded by the Luyten Half-Second catalogue, a catalogue of stars with proper motions exceeding 0.5". The star's main identifier is named after this catalogue.[8] It is located in the Hydra constellation.[note 1]

This star has a spectral type of M9V,[4] indicating a very cool star at the end of the main sequence. It is among the nearest ultracool dwarfs to Earth.[5] LHS 2065 has an effective temperature of around 2,317 K,[6] 2.5 times less than the Sun. The lack of lithium in the star's atmosphere indicate that it must be over 500 million years old.[5]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Obtained with a right ascension of 08h 53m 36.16047s and a declination of −03° 29′ 32.1975″[2] on this website.

References

  1. ^ "MAST: Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes". Space Telescope Science Institute. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv:2208.00211. Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940. S2CID 244398875. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  3. ^ a b "LHS 2065". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
  4. ^ a b c d Robrade, J.; Schmitt, J. H. M. M. (2008-09-01). "Quiescent X-ray emission from the M9 dwarf LHS 2065". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 487 (3): 1139–1141. arXiv:0806.3863. Bibcode:2008A&A...487.1139R. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200810142. ISSN 0004-6361.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Martín, Eduardo L.; Ardila, David R. (2001-05-01). "Flares at the Cool End of the M Dwarfs: The Case of LHS 2065". The Astronomical Journal. 121 (5): 2758–2760. Bibcode:2001AJ....121.2758M. doi:10.1086/320412. ISSN 0004-6256.
  6. ^ a b c d e Pineda, J. Sebastian; et al. (September 2021). "The M-dwarf Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Sample. I. Determining Stellar Parameters for Field Stars". The Astrophysical Journal. 918 (1): 23. arXiv:2106.07656. Bibcode:2021ApJ...918...40P. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac0aea. S2CID 235435757. 40.
  7. ^ a b Sanghi, Aniket; Liu, Michael C.; Best, William M. J.; Dupuy, Trent J.; Siverd, Robert J.; Zhang, Zhoujian; Hurt, Spencer A.; Magnier, Eugene A.; Aller, Kimberly M.; Deacon, Niall R. (2023-12-06). "The Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. VI. The Fundamental Properties of 1000+ Ultracool Dwarfs and Planetary-mass Objects Using Optical to Mid-infrared Spectral Energy Distributions and Comparison to BT-Settl and ATMO 2020 Model Atmospheres". The Astrophysical Journal. 959 (1): 63. Bibcode:2023AAS...24120311S. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acff66. ISSN 0004-637X. Note: See Zenodo tables
  8. ^ Luyten, Willem J. (1979-01-01). LHS catalogue. A catalogue of stars with proper motions exceeding 0"5 annually. Bibcode:1979lccs.book.....L.
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