DH Tauri
DH Tauri, also known as DH Tau, is a type M star, located 140 parsecs (456.619 light years) away. It forms a binary system with DI Tauri 15″ away, and has a substellar companion, either a brown dwarf or massive exoplanet.
DH Tauri and the b companion (lower left) with the Very Large Telescope Credit: ESO VLT SPHERE; Van Holstein et al.; Processing: Meli_thev | |
| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Taurus |
| Right ascension | 04h 29m 41.558s |
| Declination | +26° 32′ 58.27″ |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 13.1 |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | M0-M1Ve(T) |
| Variable type | T Tau |
| Astrometry | |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: +7.065 mas/yr Dec.: -20.699 mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 7.3880 ± .0593 mas |
| Distance | 441 ± 4 ly (135 ± 1 pc) |
| Details | |
| Mass | 0.41 M☉ |
| Radius | 1.26 R☉ |
| Luminosity | 0.22 L☉ |
| Temperature | 3,751 K |
| Age | 3.16 Myr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
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