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TZ Arietis (also known as Gliese 83.1, GJ 9066, or L 1159-16) is a red dwarf in the northern constellation of Aries. With a normal apparent visual magnitude of 12.3, it is too faint to be seen by the naked eye, although it lies relatively close to the Sun at a distance of 14.6 light-years (4.47 parsecs). It is a flare star, which means it can suddenly increase in brightness for short periods of time.




Variability


TZ Arietis is a variable star. It is a flare star, showing brief increases in brightness due to eruptions from its surface. In the ultraviolet, flares of over a magnitude have been observed. In addition it shows longterm variations in brightness which may be due to starspots and rotation, possibly classifying it as a BY Draconis variable. It was given the variable star designation TZ Arietis in 1970.




Planetary system


In a preprint submitted to arXiv in June 2019, three candidate planets were reported in orbit around this star (GJ 83.1) with orbital periods of 2, 240, and 770 days. A paper published in August 2020 reported a confirmation of the 240-day and 770-day planets, designating them "b" and "c", respectively.
In March 2022, astronomers using the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain, as part of the CARMENES survey project, reported an independent confirmation of the 770-day planet, which they designated "b". However, they found no evidence for the 240-day planet, and confidently defined the 2-day candidate as nothing more than a spurious chromatic effect of the star, linked to its rotation. The NASA Exoplanet Archive still refers to the confirmed, 770-day planet as "c".




See also


List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs




References






Notes






Further reading


Harrington, R. S.; Dahn, C. C. (April 1980), "Summary of U.S. Naval Observatory parallaxes", Astronomical Journal, 85: 454–465, Bibcode:1980AJ.....85..454H, doi:10.1086/112696.
Riaz, Basmah; Gizis, John E.; Harvin, James (2006), "Identification of New M Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood", The Astronomical Journal, 132 (2): 866–872, arXiv:astro-ph/0606617, Bibcode:2006AJ....132..866R, doi:10.1086/505632, S2CID 6282011 Table 1.
Dittmann, Jason A.; Irwin, Jonathan M.; Charbonneau, David; Berta-Thompson, Zachory K. (2014), "Trigonometric Parallaxes for 1507 Nearby Mid-to-late M Dwarfs", The Astrophysical Journal, 784 (2): 156, arXiv:1312.3241, Bibcode:2014ApJ...784..156D, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/784/2/156, S2CID 18789867 Table with parallaxes.




External links


ARICNS entry Archived 2007-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
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