Star HD 100546

White-Blue star HD 100546 is located 359 light years away from the Sun. It is a single star of spectral class A0VaekB8_lB B, that has typically about 190 % of solar mass. There are multiple known exoplanets in this system.

HD 100546

White-Blue star

Spectral class: A0VaekB8_lB B

Location

Right ascension: 11h 33m 25.445s

Declination: -70° 11' 41.239'' (southern hemisphere)

Parallax: 9.089

Sun distance: 358.839 ly | 110 pc

Basic characteristic

Mass: 240 % M Sun (estimate)

Size: 220 % R Sun (estimate)

Age: 0.01 billions years | 0 Sun

Photometry

Apparent magnitude (V): 6.7

Absolute magnitude (V): 1.5

Absolute stellar magnitude in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared (K band) to ultraviolet (U band).

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

HD 100546 system structure


HD 100546
	HD 100546 b	15 AU	985.5 M⊕	77.3 R⊕	90958 days
	HD 100546 c	110 AU	2702.2 M⊕		-

More about HD 100546

Star HD 100546 is a main sequence star that fuses hydrogen atoms into helium.

       HD 100546 can be found in southern celestial hemisphere, you cannot see it with naked eye, but you can observe this star with basic telescope.

Other designations of this star
KR Mus, HIC 56379, HIP 56379, SAO 251457, CD−69° 893, GC 15855, 2MASS J11332542-7011412, PDS 340, TIC 280773136, TYC 9229-2446-1, WISEA J113325.38-701141.0, IRAS 11312-6955

External sources

An ALMA molecular inventory of warm Herbig Ae disks: I. Molecular rings, asymmetries and complexity in the HD 100546 disk

Scientific study, Accepted: 06. 02. 2024

Spatially resolving the volatile sulfur abundance in the HD 100546 protoplanetary disk

Scientific study, Accepted: 21. 12. 2023

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