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HD 6 is a star in the equatorial constellation of Pisces, and is located a couple of degrees southeast of the intersection between the ecliptic and the celestial equator. It is a yellow-hued star that is just barely visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.3.[3] The star is located at a distance of 471 light-years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 14.9 km/s.[2] It has an absolute magnitude of 0.62.[1]

An evolved red giant with a stellar classification K0 III,[5] the star has moved off the main sequence by cooling and expanding. At the age of 1.6 billion years,[7] is now a red clump giant on the horizontal branch that is engaged in core helium fusion.[4] It has nearly double the mass of the Sun[7] and has expanded to 12.4[8] times the Sun’s radius. The star is radiating 72 times the luminosity of the Sun[9] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,807 K.[8]

References

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  3. ^ a b Høg, E.; Fabricius, C.; Makarov, V. V.; Urban, S.; Corbin, T.; Wycoff, G.; Bastian, U.; Schwekendiek, P.; Wicenec, A. (March 2000). “The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars”. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355: L27–L30. Bibcode:2000A&A…355L..27H. ISSN 0004-6361.
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  5. ^ a b Houk, N.; Swift, C. (1999), “Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD Stars”, Michigan Spectral Survey, 5, Bibcode:1999MSS…C05….0H.
  6. ^ a b Cousins, A. W. J. (1971). “Photometric standard stars”. Royal Observatory Annals. 7. Bibcode:1971ROAn….7…..C.
  7. ^ a b c d Demarque, Pierre; Woo, Jong-Hak; Kim, Yong-Cheol; Yi, Sukyoung K. (December 2004). Y 2 Isochrones with an Improved Core Overshoot Treatment”. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 155 (2): 667–674. arXiv:astro-ph/0409024. Bibcode:2004ApJS..155..667D. doi:10.1086/424966. eISSN 1538-4365. ISSN 0067-0049.
  8. ^ a b c d Stassun, Keivan G.; et al. (9 September 2019). “The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List”. The Astronomical Journal. 158 (4): 138. arXiv:1905.10694. Bibcode:2019AJ….158..138S. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467. eISSN 1538-3881.
  9. ^ a b Luck, R. Earle (25 August 2015). “Abundances in the Local Region. I. G and K Giants”. The Astronomical Journal. 150 (3): 88. arXiv:1507.01466. Bibcode:2015AJ….150…88L. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/88. eISSN 1538-3881. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 118505114.
  10. ^ Fekel, Francis C.; Watson, Lyndon C. (November 1998). “A Search for Lithium-rich Giants among Stars with Infrared Excesses”. The Astronomical Journal. 116 (5): 2466–2474. Bibcode:1998AJ….116.2466F. doi:10.1086/300614. ISSN 0004-6256.
  11. ^ “HD 6”. SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  12. ^ Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1879), “Uranometria Argentina catalog of bright southern stars”, Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino en Cordoba, 1, Buenos Aires, Bibcode:1879RNAO….1…..G, retrieved 2012-05-08