Van Maanen’s Star

modern name for GJ 35 = HIP 3829, Third white dwarf identified, and first and nearest solitary white dwarf.

Etymology and History

van Maanen's note on the discovery of "his" star (screenshot)

Appeared as “van Maanen’s Star” in a compendium of science abstracts in 1919 (for a paper by Cosserat),

• Whitaker (1922, an Almanac!),
• Seares (1924),
• Luyten (1950),
• van de Kamp (1971),
• Burnham (1978),
• Spite & Lahmek (1982),
• Fernandez (1983).
• “van Maanen’s Star” has own entry in Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics (Murdin, 2001)
• Appeared as "van Maanen" in Allen (1963) Allen's Astrophysical Quantities. Name appears in ~10 NASA ADS abstracts
• Name is already in SIMBAD .
• Wikipedia

IAU Star Name

WGSN discussed the name in 2022 but decided (for the time being) not to name stars after people.