LHS 2520
Star in the constellation Corvus
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LHS 2520, also known as GJ 3707, is a red dwarf star in the constellation Corvus. With an apparent magnitude of 12.12, it is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye. A cool star of spectral type M3.5V,[2] it has a surface temperature of 3024 K.[3] The star was too faint to have had its parallax measured by the Hipparcos satellite. Measurement by Gaia gives its parallax as 81.57±0.04 milliarcseconds, yielding a distance of 40 light-years (12 parsecs).[1]
LHS 2520 | |
| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Corvus |
| Right ascension | 12h 10m 05.60124s[1] |
| Declination | −15° 04′ 16.9613″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.12 |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | M3.5V[2] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | 80.47±0.26[1] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −56.437 mas/yr[1] Dec.: −712.957 mas/yr[1] |
| Parallax (π) | 81.5703±0.0354 mas[1] |
| Distance | 39.98 ± 0.02 ly (12.259 ± 0.005 pc) |
| Details | |
| Temperature | 3024[3] K |
| Other designations | |
| LHS 2520, GJ 3707, LP 734-32 | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
| ARICNS | data |
In popular culture
In Action Comics #14 (January 2013), which was published 7 November 2012, Neil Degrasse Tyson appears in the story, in which he determines that Superman's home planet, Krypton, orbited LHS 2520. Tyson assisted DC Comics in selecting a real-life star that would be an appropriate parent star to Krypton, and picked the star in Corvus,[4][5] and which is the mascot of Superman's high school, the Smallville Crows.[6]
The star also appears as LP 734-32 in the 2014 game, Elite Dangerous.[7]