HD 28527

HD 28527
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Taurus
Right ascension 04h 30m 33.633s
Declination +16° 11 38.45
Apparent magnitude (V) 4.78
Characteristics
Spectral type A6 IV or A7 V
B−V color index +0.170±0.001
Variable type suspected δ Sct
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+38.1±0.8 km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +104.889 mas/yr
Dec.: −25.446 mas/yr
Parallax (π)22.1875±0.1430 mas
Distance147.0 ± 0.9 ly
(45.1 ± 0.3 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)+1.58
Details
Mass1.75 M
Radius2.209 R
Luminosity19.03 L
Surface gravity (log g)4.17±0.14 cgs
Temperature8,274±281 K
Metallicity [Fe/H]+0.30 dex
Rotation1.278 d
Rotational velocity (v sin i)87.5 km/s
Age307 Myr
Other designations
NSV 1627, BD+15°637, GJ 170.1, GJ 9157, HD 28527, HIP 21029, HR 1427, SAO 93975
Database references
SIMBADdata

HD 28527 is a star in the constellation Taurus, and a member of the Hyades open cluster. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.78. The distance to this star, as determined from its parallax shift of 22 mas, is 147 light years. It is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +38 km/s.

Based upon a stellar classification of A6 IV by Cowley et al. (1969), this is an A-type subgiant star that has consumed the hydrogen at its core and is evolving away from the main sequence. Older studies had it classed as an A-type main-sequence star with a class of A7 V. At the age of 307 million years, it has a high rate of spin, revolving upon its axis once every 1.278 days. It is a Delta Scuti variable with 1.75 times the mass of the Sun and 2.2 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 19 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,274 K.

Due to its location near the ecliptic, this star is subject to lunar occultations. These events have provided occasional, but not definitive, evidence of a close secondary companion. Eggleton and Tokovinin (2008) catalogue this as a possible triple star system, having the inner pair being similar stars with an angular separation of 0.02, and the outer component a magnitude 6.7 star of class F2 at a much wider separation of 250″. The wide companion is HD 28458, another member of the Hyades.