View source for 70 Ophiuchi

{{Short description|Star in the constellation Ophiuchus}}
{{about-distinguish2|p Ophiuchi|[[Rho Ophiuchi|ρ (Rho) Ophiuchi]]}}
{{Starbox begin
| name=70 Ophiuchi
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|alt=70 Ophiuchi is located in the constellation Ophiuchus
|caption=Location of 70 Ophiuchi in the constellation [[Ophiuchus]]
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{{Starbox observe 3s
| epoch = J2000
| equinox = <!--Equinox of coordinates (defaults to epoch)-->
| constell = [[Ophiuchus]]
| component1 = 70 Ophiuchi
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| dec1 = {{DEC|+02|29|00.36}}<ref name=aaa474_2_653/>
| appmag_v1 = 4.00 - 4.03<ref name=vsx/>
| component2 = A
| ra2 = {{RA|18|05|27.371}}<ref name=tycho/>
| dec2 = {{DEC|+02|29|59.32}}<ref name=tycho/>
| appmag_v2 = 4.13<ref name=tycho/>
| component3 = B
| ra3 = {{RA|18|05|27.462}}<ref name=dr2/>
| dec3 = {{DEC|+02|29|56.22}}<ref name=dr2/>
| appmag_v3 = 6.07<ref name=tycho/>
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{{Starbox character
| class=K0V + K4V<ref name=mk/>
| appmag_1_passband = B
| appmag_1 = 4.97/7.26<ref name=tycho/>
| appmag_3_passband = R
| appmag_3 = 3.6/5.6<ref name=tycho/>
| b-v=+0.84/+1.19<ref name=tycho/>
| u-b=+0.69<ref name=ubv/>
| variable= [[BY Draconis variable|BY Dra]]<ref name=gcvs/> or [[RS Canum Venaticorum variable|RS CVn]]<ref name=vsx/>
}}
{{Starbox astrometry
| component1 = 70 Oph A
| radial_v=&minus;6.87<ref name=pourbaix/>
| prop_mo_ra={{val|206.525|0.246}}<ref name="GaiaEDR3a"/>
| prop_mo_dec={{val|-1107.492|0.164}}<ref name="GaiaEDR3a"/>
| parallax=195.5674
| p_error=0.1964
| parallax_footnote=<ref name="GaiaEDR3a">{{Cite Gaia EDR3|4468557611984384512}}</ref>
| absmag_v=+5.49<ref name=Holmberg2009/>
| component2 = 70 Oph B
| radial_v2=
| prop_mo_ra2={{val|333.292|0.264}}<ref name="GaiaEDR3b">{{Cite Gaia EDR3|4468557611977674496}}</ref>
| prop_mo_dec2={{val|-1068.354|0.215}}<ref name="GaiaEDR3b"/>
| parallax2=195.2166
| p_error2=0.1012
| parallax_footnote2=<ref name="GaiaDR2b">{{Cite Gaia DR2|4468557611977674496}}</ref>
| absmag_v2=
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| period={{val|88.38|0.017}}
| axis={{val|4.554|0.0052}}
| eccentricity={{val|0.4992|0.00039}}
| inclination={{val|121.16|0.078}}
| periarg={{val|14.0|0.14}}
| periastron=1895.94
| node={{val|302.12|0.097}} 
}}
{{Starbox detail
| component1 = 70 Oph A
| source = <ref name=Boyajian/>
| metal_fe=+0.04<ref name=aaa521_A12/>
| mass={{nowrap|0.90 ± 0.04}}<ref name="aaa338"/>
| radius={{val|0.831|0.004}}<ref name=Boyajian/>
| gravity=4.5<ref name="aaa259"/>
| rotation=19.7&nbsp;days<ref name=aaa521_A12/>
| luminosity_bolometric={{nowrap|0.59 ± 0.02}}<ref name=mnras405_3_1907/>
| habitable_inner = 0.623<ref name=Boyajian/> AU
| habitable_outer = 1.242<ref name=Boyajian/> AU
| temperature=5,300<ref name="aaa259"/>
| age_gyr=1.9<ref name="MH08"/>
| component2 = 70 Oph B
| mass2={{nowrap|0.70 ± 0.07}}<ref name="aaa338"/>
| radius2= {{val|0.670|0.009}}<ref name=Boyajian/>
| habitable_inner2 = 0.359<ref name=Boyajian/> AU
| habitable_outer2 = 0.712<ref name=Boyajian/> AU
| luminosity_bolometric2={{nowrap|0.13 ± 0.03}}<ref name="aaa338"/>
| temperature2={{nowrap|4,350 ± 150}}<ref name="aaa338"/>
}}
{{Starbox catalog
| names= [[Bayer designation|p]]&nbsp;Ophiuchi, [[Variable star designation|V2391]]&nbsp;Ophiuchi, [[Bonner Durchmusterung|BD]]+02&nbsp;3482, [[Gliese-Jahreiss catalogue|Gl]]&nbsp;702, [[Henry Draper catalogue|HD]]&nbsp;165341, [[Hipparcos catalogue|HIP]]&nbsp;88601, [[Harvard Revised catalogue|HR]]&nbsp;6752, [[General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes|PLX]]&nbsp;4137
| component1 = 70 Oph A
| names1=[[Luyten Half-Second catalogue|LHS]]&nbsp;458
| component2 = 70 Oph B
| names2=[[Luyten Half-Second catalogue|LHS]]&nbsp;459
}}
{{Starbox reference
| Simbad = V2391+Oph|sn=The system
| Simbad2 = TYC+434-5213-1|sn2=A
| Simbad3 = TYC+434-5212-1|sn3=B
| NSTED = HIP+88601
| ARICNS = 01463
}}
{{Starbox end}}
'''70 Ophiuchi''' is a [[binary star|binary]] [[star system]] located 16.6 [[light year]]s away from the [[Earth]].  It is in the [[constellation]] [[Ophiuchus]]. At [[apparent magnitude|magnitude 4]] it appears as a dim star visible to the unaided eye away from city lights.

==History==
In [[Ptolemy]]'s 2nd-century [[Almagest]] star catalogue this star system is listed as a 4th magnitude star, the ''28th'' (or ''4th outside the constellation figure'') in ''Ophiuchus''. It is star ''No. 261'' in this catalogue.<ref name=vizier/>

This star system was first catalogued as a binary star by [[William Herschel]] in the late 18th century in his study of binary stars. Herschel proved that this system is a gravitationally bound [[Binary star|binary]] system where the two stars orbit around a common [[center of mass]]. This was an important contribution to the proof that [[Newton's law of universal gravitation]] applied to objects beyond the [[Solar System]]. 

This star was once considered part of the obsolete constellation [[Taurus Poniatovii]], but after the [[International Astronomical Union]] officially recognized constellations, it was placed in Ophiuchus.<ref name=ridpath/>

==Variability==
[[File:V2391OphLightCurve.png|thumb|left|A [[light curve]] for V2391 Ophiuchi, plotted from ''[[Hipparcos]]'' data<ref name="CDS"/>]]
70 Ophiuchi is a variable star with a magnitude range for the two stars combined of 4.00 to 4.03.<ref name=vsx/>  The type of variability is uncertain and it is not clear which of the two components causes the variations.  It has been suspected of being either a [[BY Draconis variable]]<ref name=gcvs/> or an [[RS Canum Venaticorum variable]], and a period of 1.92396 days has been measured.<ref name=vsx/>

==Binary star==
The primary star is a yellow-orange [[main sequence]] dwarf of [[spectral type]] K0, while the secondary is an orange dwarf of [[spectral type]] K4.<ref name=mk/>  The two stars orbit each other at an average distance of 23.2 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]. But since the orbit is highly elliptical (at ''e''=0.499), the separation between the two varies from 11.4 to 34.8 AU,<ref name=solstation/> with one orbit taking 88.38 years to complete.<ref name=pourbaix/>

==Claims of a planetary system==
In 1855, [[William Stephen Jacob]] of the [[Madras Observatory]] claimed that the orbit of the binary showed an anomaly, and it was  "highly probable" that there was a "planetary body in connection with this system".<ref name=Jacob/> This is the first known attempt to use [[astrometry|astrometric]] methods to detect an [[exoplanet]], although [[Friedrich Bessel]] had applied similar methods 10 years earlier to deduce the existence of [[Sirius#Discovery of Sirius B|Sirius B]].<ref name="Kipping"/>

[[Thomas Jefferson Jackson See|T. J. J. See]] made a stronger claim for the existence of a dark companion in this system in 1899,<ref name="See"/> but [[Forest Ray Moulton]] soon published a paper proving that a three-body system with the specified orbital parameters would be highly unstable.<ref name=JHA/> The claims by Jacob and See have both been shown to be erroneous.<ref name="heintz1988"/>

Discovery of a "third dark companion" was announced by [[Louis Berman]] in 1932. This "dark body" around 70 Oph A was thought to have an 18-year period and a mass of 0.1 to 0.2 the [[Sun]]'s mass.<ref name=LOB/> A claim of a planetary system was again made, this time by [[Dirk Reuyl]] and [[Erik Holberg]] in 1943. The companion was estimated to have a mass 0.008 to 0.012 that of the [[Sun]] and a 17-year period.<ref name=OETCS70O/> This caused quite a sensation at the time but later observations have gradually discredited this claim.<ref name="heintz1988"/><ref name=SNT5P/><ref name=POMBS70O/>

The negative results of past studies does not completely rule out the possibility of planets. In 2006 a [[McDonald Observatory]] team set limits to the presence of one or more planets around 70 Ophiuchi with masses between 0.46 and 12.8 [[Jupiter masses]] and average separations spanning between 0.05 and 5.2 [[Astronomical Units|AU]].<ref name=search/>

==See also==
* [[61 Cygni]]
* [[Barnard's Star]]
* [[List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name=ridpath>{{cite web |url=http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/poniatowski.html |title=Taurus Poniatovii |author=Ian Ridpath |website=Star Tales |access-date=2023-11-01 }}</ref>

<ref name=Boyajian>{{Cite journal |last=Boyajian |first=Tabetha S. |last2=von Braun |first2=Kaspar |last3=van Belle |first3=Gerard |last4=McAlister |first4=Harold A. |last5=Brummelaar |first5=Theo A. ten |last6=Kane |first6=Stephen R. |last7=Muirhead |first7=Phil |last8=Jones |first8=Jeremy |last9=White |first9=Russel |last10=Schaefer |first10=Gail |last11=Ciardi |first11=David |last12=Henry |first12=Todd |last13=López-Morales |first13=Mercedes |last14=Ridgway |first14=Stephen |last15=Gies |first15=Douglas |date=2012-10-01 |title=Stellar Diameters and Temperatures II. Main Sequence K & M Stars |arxiv=1208.2431 |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=757 |issue=2 |pages=112 |doi=10.1088/0004-637X/757/2/112 |issn=0004-637X}}</ref>

<ref name=search>{{cite journal| title=Detection Limits from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search Program | date= 7 April 2006| author=Wittenmyer | journal=[[The Astronomical Journal]]| volume= 132| issue= 1| pages= 177–188| doi= 10.1086/504942| url=http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1538-3881/132/1/177/205213.web.pdf?request-id=07bc0d13-46f9-401e-afa4-5f9928b3da46| last2=Endl| first2=Michael| last3=Cochran| first3=William D.| last4=Hatzes| first4=Artie P.| last5=Walker| first5=G. A. H.| last6=Yang| first6=S. L. S.| last7=Paulson| first7=Diane B. | bibcode=2006AJ....132..177W|arxiv = astro-ph/0604171 | s2cid= 16755455}}</ref>

<ref name=POMBS70O>{{cite journal
| title=Parallax, orbit, and mass of the binary star 70 Ophiuchi
| author=Worth, M.D.
| journal=Astrophysical Journal
| volume=193
| pages=647–650
| date=November 1974 
| doi=10.1086/153202
| bibcode=1974ApJ...193..647W 
| url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1974ApJ...193..647W| doi-access=free
}}</ref>

<ref name=OETCS70O>{{cite journal
| title= On the Existence of a Third Component in the System 70 Ophiuchi
| author=Reuyl, Dirk
| author2=Holmberg, Erik
| journal=The Astrophysical Journal
| volume=97 | pages=41–46 |date=January 1943 | doi=10.1086/144489
| bibcode=1943ApJ....97...41R |url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?db_key=AST&bibcode=1943ApJ....97...41R&letter=0&classic=YES&defaultprint=YES&whole_paper=YES&page=41&epage=41&send=Send+PDF&filetype=.pdf}}</ref>

<ref name="SNT5P">{{cite journal
| title=Stars Nearer than Five Parsecs
| author=van de Kamp, Peter
| journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
| volume=57
| number=334
| pages=34–41 (38*)
| date=February 1945 
| doi=10.1086/125679
| bibcode=1945PASP...57...34V 
| url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1945PASP...57...34V| doi-access=free
}}</ref><

<ref name=LOB>{{cite journal
| title= 70 Ophiuchi as a Triple System
| author=Berman, Louis
| journal=Lick Observatory Bulletin
| number=443 | pages=24–30 |date=1932 | volume=16
| doi= 10.5479/ADS/bib/1932LicOB.16.24B
| bibcode= 1932LicOB..16...24B |url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1932LicOB..16...24B| doi-access=free}}</ref>

<ref name="heintz1988">{{cite journal |last=Heintz |first=W.D. |date=June 1988 |title=The Binary Star 70 Ophiuchi Revisited |journal=Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |volume=82 |issue=3 |page=140 |bibcode=1988JRASC..82..140H |url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1988JRASC..82..140H&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf}}</ref>

<ref name=JHA>{{cite journal |url=http://www.shpltd.co.uk/jha.pdf |journal=Journal for the History of Astronomy |title=A Career of controversy: the anomaly OF T. J. J. See |last=Sherrill |first=Thomas J. |date=1999 |volume=30 |access-date=2007-08-27| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070925214307/http://www.shpltd.co.uk/jha.pdf| archive-date= 25 September 2007 | url-status= live | doi=10.1177/002182869903000102 | pages=25–50|bibcode=1999JHA....30...25S|s2cid=117727302}}</ref>

<ref name="See">{{cite journal |last=See |first=Thomas Jefferson Jackson |author-link=Thomas Jefferson Jackson See |date=1896 |title=Researches on the Orbit of F.70 Ophiuchi, and on a Periodic Perturbation in the Motion of the System Arising from the Action of an Unseen Body |journal=The Astronomical Journal |volume=16 |page=17 |doi=10.1086/102368 |bibcode=1896AJ.....16...17S}}</ref>

<ref name="Kipping">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hNWCI-9n8Q | title=The First Exoplanet Claim: Captain William S Jacob| website=[[YouTube]]| date=2 December 2016}}</ref>

<ref name=Jacob>{{cite journal |last=Jacob |first=W.S. |date=1855 |title=On Certain Anomalies presented by the Binary Star 70 Ophiuchi |journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] |volume=15 |issue=9 |pages=228–230 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQsAAAAAMAAJ&q=editions:0B0EaWqbmirpeTa2sds |bibcode = 1855MNRAS..15..228J | doi = 10.1093/mnras/15.9.228|doi-access=free }}</ref>

<ref name=solstation>[http://www.solstation.com/stars/70ophiu2.htm Solstation article giving details of orbital mechanics of the system]</ref>

<ref name=vizier>{{cite web|url=https://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/VizieR-5?-ref=VIZ62270d2f2c9e&-out.add=.&-source=J/A%2bA/544/A31/ptolema&recno=261 |title=Star Catalogue of Ptolemaios |publisher=Vizier.cfa.harvard.edu |date=2016-01-16 |accessdate=2022-03-27}}</ref>

<ref name="CDS">{{cite web
 | url=https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/ftp-index?/ftp/cats/more/HIP/cdroms/cats
 | website=Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg | title=/ftp/cats/more/HIP/cdroms/cats
 | publisher=Strasbourg astronomical Data Center | access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref>

<ref name=Holmberg2009>{{citation
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<ref name=aaa474_2_653>{{citation | last1=van Leeuwen | first1=F. | title=Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction | journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics | volume=474 | issue=2 |date=November 2007 | pages=653–664 | doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20078357 | bibcode=2007A&A...474..653V | arxiv=0708.1752 | s2cid=18759600 }}</ref>

<ref name=aaa338>{{citation | last1=Fernandes | first1=J. | last2=Lebreton | first2=Y. | last3=Baglin | first3=A. | last4=Morel | first4=P. | title=Fundamental stellar parameters for nearby visual binary stars: eta Cas, XI Boo, 70 OPH and 85 Peg | journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics | date=1998 | volume=338 | pages=455–464 | bibcode=1998A&A...338..455F }}</ref>

<ref name="MH08">{{citation | last1=Mamajek | first1=Eric E. | last2=Hillenbrand | first2=Lynne A. | title=Improved Age Estimation for Solar-Type Dwarfs Using Activity-Rotation Diagnostics | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=687 | issue=2 | pages=1264–1293 |date=November 2008 | doi=10.1086/591785 | bibcode=2008ApJ...687.1264M |arxiv = 0807.1686 | s2cid=27151456 }}</ref>

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<ref name=mnras405_3_1907>{{citation | display-authors=1 | last1=Bruntt | first1=H. | last2=Bedding | first2=T. R. | last3=Quirion | first3=P.-O. | last4=Lo Curto | first4=G. | last5=Carrier | first5=F. | last6=Smalley | first6=B. | last7=Dall | first7=T. H. | last8=Arentoft | first8=T. | last9=Bazot | first9=M. | title=Accurate fundamental parameters for 23 bright solar-type stars | journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | volume=405 | issue=3 | pages=1907–1923 |date=July 2010 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16575.x | doi-access=free | bibcode=2010MNRAS.405.1907B |arxiv = 1002.4268 | s2cid=118495267 }}</ref>
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<ref name=gcvs>{{cite web
| url=http://www.sai.msu.su/groups/cluster/gcvs/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search=V2391+Oph
| work=[[General Catalog of Variable Stars]]
| publisher=[[Sternberg Astronomical Institute]], [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]
| title=GCVS Query= V2391 Oph
| access-date=2018-03-08
}}</ref>

<ref name=vsx>{{cite web
| url=https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=22877
| work=International Variable Star Index
| publisher=[[AAVSO]]
| title=V2391 Oph
| access-date=2018-10-07
}}</ref>

<ref name=tycho>{{cite journal|bibcode=2002A&A...384..180F|title=The Tycho double star catalogue|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics|volume=384|pages=180–189|last1=Fabricius|first1=C.|last2=Høg|first2=E.|last3=Makarov|first3=V. V.|last4=Mason|first4=B. D.|last5=Wycoff|first5=G. L.|last6=Urban|first6=S. E.|year=2002|doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20011822|doi-access=free}}</ref>

<ref name=dr2>{{cite DR2|4468557611977674496}}</ref>

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<ref name=ubv>{{cite journal|bibcode=2002yCat.2237....0D|title=VizieR Online Data Catalog: Catalogue of Stellar Photometry in Johnson's 11-color system|journal=VizieR On-line Data Catalog|last1=Ducati|first1=J. R.|year=2002|volume=2237 }}</ref>

<ref name=pourbaix>{{cite journal|bibcode=2000A&AS..145..215P|doi=10.1051/aas:2000237|title=Resolved double-lined spectroscopic binaries: A neglected source of hypothesis-free parallaxes and stellar masses|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series|volume=145|issue=2|pages=215–222|year=2000|last1=Pourbaix|first1=D.|doi-access=free}}</ref>

}}

==External links==
* [[arXiv:astro-ph/0604171|Detection Limits from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search Program]]
* {{cite web
| title=70 Ophiuchi
| work=SolStation
| url=http://www.solstation.com/stars/70ophiu2.htm
| access-date=October 24, 2005 }}
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{{Stars of Ophiuchus}}

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[[Category:Binary stars]]
[[Category:Flamsteed objects|Ophiuchi, 70]]
[[Category:Ophiuchus]]
[[Category:K-type main-sequence stars]]
[[Category:Solar analogs|Ophiuchi, 70]]
[[Category:Gliese and GJ objects|0702]]
[[Category:Objects with variable star designations|Ophiuchi, V2391]]
[[Category:Henry Draper Catalogue objects|165341]]
[[Category:Hipparcos objects|088601]]
[[Category:Bright Star Catalogue objects|6752]]
[[Category:Bayer objects|Ophiuchi, p]]
[[Category:Durchmusterung objects]]
[[Category:Hypothetical planetary systems]]