User contributions for Ericmamajek
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5 July 2024
- 11:5711:57, 5 July 2024 diff hist +43 N File:Eric Argelander.jpg No edit summary current
- 11:5511:55, 5 July 2024 diff hist +1,455 N Argelander’s Star Created page with "modern name for HD 103095 = HR 4550 ==Etymology and History== The star was first catalogued as Groombridge 1830 (Groombridge, 1838, “A Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars”; Stephen Groombridge 1755-1832), but F.W.A. Argelander (1799-1875) first reported as the star with highest known proper motion in 1842 (at 7”/yr it is still 3rd highest proper motion star behind Barnard’s Star and Kapteyn’s Star). The name appeared in Peters (1853) “On the Parallax of Argel..."
- 11:5211:52, 5 July 2024 diff hist +120 Van Maanen’s Star added source Tag: Visual edit
- 11:5111:51, 5 July 2024 diff hist +61 N File:Eric vanMaanen.png No edit summary current
- 11:5011:50, 5 July 2024 diff hist −2 Van Maanen’s Star No edit summary
- 11:5011:50, 5 July 2024 diff hist +956 N Van Maanen’s Star Created page with " modern name for GJ 35 = HIP 3829, Third white dwarf identified, and first and nearest solitary white dwarf. ==Etymology and History== 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 (Mur..."
- 11:4811:48, 5 July 2024 diff hist +110 Luyten’s Star image added Tag: Visual edit
- 11:4811:48, 5 July 2024 diff hist +44 N File:Eric Luyten+Ebbinghausen.png No edit summary current
- 11:4611:46, 5 July 2024 diff hist −1 Luyten’s Star No edit summary
- 11:4511:45, 5 July 2024 diff hist −2 Luyten’s Star →IAU Star Name Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 11:4511:45, 5 July 2024 diff hist +1,353 N Luyten’s Star Created page with " modern name for GJ 273 = LHS 33 = BD+5 1668. Early parallax estimate of this high pm star (3.5”/yr) by Luyten & Ebbighausen (1935) of plx=0.40+-0.15” suggested it might be one of the closest stars. Current values: M3.5V star (V=9.9 mag) at d=3.8 pc. Two confirmed exoplanets and two candidates. ==Etymology and History== Shortly afterwards, “Luyten’s Star” started appearing in works: A list of nearby stars in an astronomy lab manual by R.K. Marshall) (1938),..."
- 11:4111:41, 5 July 2024 diff hist +95 Kapteyn’s Star →Weblinks: added note on WGSN Tag: Visual edit
- 11:4011:40, 5 July 2024 diff hist +196 Kapteyn’s Star text sources added Tag: Visual edit
- 11:4011:40, 5 July 2024 diff hist +42 N File:Eric Luyten.jpg No edit summary current
- 11:3911:39, 5 July 2024 diff hist +41 N File:Eric kapteyn.png No edit summary current
- 11:3611:36, 5 July 2024 diff hist +1,221 N Kapteyn’s Star Created page with "modern name for HD 33793 = GJ 191, a high proper motion M1 subdwarf at d=4pc (V=8.8). ==Etymology and History== This was 2nd highest proper motion star in 1927 according to Luyten and still is! (8.7”/yr). It was pointed out as highest proper motion (at time) by Kapteyn (1897) “Stern mit grösster bislang bekannter Eigenbewegung” (“Star with largest self-motion known to date”) Name appears to be from Luyten (1927) “Note on the Magnitude and Spectrum of Kap..."
- 11:3411:34, 5 July 2024 diff hist +73 m Geminga No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 11:3311:33, 5 July 2024 diff hist +99 Geminga added source Tag: Visual edit
- 11:3211:32, 5 July 2024 diff hist +51 N File:Eric Geminga.png No edit summary current
- 11:3111:31, 5 July 2024 diff hist +68 m Geminga →Etymology and History Tag: Visual edit
- 11:3011:30, 5 July 2024 diff hist −65 Geminga →Etymology and History Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 11:2911:29, 5 July 2024 diff hist +1,008 N Geminga Created page with "modern name for PSR B0633+17 Astrophysically important nearby pulsar – 1127 references. NASA ADS lists 844 publications with “Geminga” in abstract. Name listed in Lortet & Spite (1986) IAU dictionary of names. ==Etymology and History== "Geminga" is an artificially invented term for the gamma-ray and X-ray pulsar discovered and named by [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983ApJ...272L...9B/abstract Giovanni Bignani+ 1983] see footnote below. Bignami (1944-2017)..."
- 11:2411:24, 5 July 2024 diff hist +8 m Przybylski's Star →Etymology and History Tag: Visual edit
- 11:2311:23, 5 July 2024 diff hist +935 N Przybylski's Star made the page and added a photograph for the evidence Tag: Visual edit
- 11:2211:22, 5 July 2024 diff hist +74 N File:Eric Przybylski.png No edit summary current
- 11:1811:18, 5 July 2024 diff hist +19 Plaskett's Star No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 11:1811:18, 5 July 2024 diff hist +129 Plaskett's Star No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 11:1711:17, 5 July 2024 diff hist +64 N File:Eric Plaskett.png No edit summary current
- 11:1411:14, 5 July 2024 diff hist +1,334 N Plaskett's Star Created page with "hier kommt die Maus ==Etymology and History== Name appears to stem from Struve (1948) “J. S. Plaskett's Star of Large Mass, HD 47129” https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1948ApJ...107..327S/abstract and subsequently as “Plaskett’s Star”by Abhyankar (1957) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1957PASP...69..385A/abstract. Struve remarked that the system was unique for its total mass being so massive (>139 Msun) ==Mythology== ==IAU Star Name== Appears in va..."
- 11:1111:11, 5 July 2024 diff hist +145 Tyl made the page and added a photograph for the evidence Tag: Visual edit
- 11:1011:10, 5 July 2024 diff hist +43 N File:Becvar Tyl.jpg No edit summary current
- 11:0711:07, 5 July 2024 diff hist +735 N Tyl Created page with "a modern star name. ==Etymology and History== Name of unknown etymology from ANTONÍN BEČVÁŘ’S Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso II (1951) & later editions. Name later appeared in Hoffleit’s Bright Star Catalog (4th & 5th editions), Rhoads (1971), Moore (1990), Bakich (1995), Kunitzsch & Smart (2006), etc. ==Mythology== ==IAU Star Name== Name is already in SIMBAD: https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=Tyl Star is V=3.91 mag, G7 giant at d=47 pc. Has c..."
16 May 2024
- 07:4207:42, 16 May 2024 diff hist −3 Antinous →Suggested for IAU-CSN by Tag: Visual edit
- 07:4107:41, 16 May 2024 diff hist +825 Antinous information on alternative names found in modern media for tet Aql Tag: Visual edit