The star Drem as seen from above the asteroid ‘Warriors Heart’
Drem - Star
M5V
Orbit 1: .0188 Asteroid Belt (“night spirits”)
Orbit 2: .034
HZ planet
Orbit 3: .05 Planet
Orbit 4: .077 Drem (Cold life planet)
Orbit 5: .123 Planet
Orbit 6: .209 Neptune sized-jovian
Inner Kuiperian 1.745625
Mid Kuiperian 2.0519
Outer Kuiperian 2.6644
Drem B T6V 18.0
Oort Cloud 2297.0
Planets can’t survive .0008404 AU
Inner System zone .134462 AU
Mass .25 of sol
Diameter .35053 of sol
Stellar Radius .35 of sol
Absolute Magnitude 12.2
Luminosity .00113 of sol
Luminosity @ planet .996828 of sol
Temp in Kelvin 3240
Mean Density 7.40802 kg/cubic
meter
Color reddish
Tidal Lock range: .475 AU
Apparent Diameter 3.308267 suns
Apparent Brightness .086 of sol
SPF .0047 of sol
Life zone Inner - .0252 [2,369,893 km]
Optimum - .0336155 [3,159,857 km]
Outer
- .0471 [4,423,800 km]
Basics on Drem
The star Drem itself is quite odd for an M-star, but it is deeper
where one has to look for the oddities. Drem is a typical cool, dim main
sequence red star (M5V) that contains only 25.0 percent of mass of Sol, and
37.0 percent of the diameter. With luminosity roughly 1.1 percent of Sol, Drem
is naked to the unaided eye. The star currently rotates roughly every 35 days,
which gives the age of the star roughly 6.5 Billion years of age. Accounting
for the amount of infra-red radiation, the star has a tiny habitable zone,
located at roughly .02 to .05 AU, thus, any planet in that zone would be
tidally locked and eternally show one face towards the star. This area is where
a comfortable temperature would be found with liquid water and so capable of
supporting “life as we know it”. Sunspots do occur on Drem, although rarely which
is a strange thing since Drem is still a fairly young star, not an old star
like Barnards Star which is roughly 11 to 12 Billion
years old. This presents scientists with questions, as Drem is not known to
burst out flares like most M-stars do, and so questions, studies and theories
of why Drem does not flare up will need to be looked into.
Spectra of Drem showing
that it’s an M5V
Possible Companion?
Ever since probes, telescopes both land based and in space
detected this little star, oddities in the movement made questions arise. The
main movement was a perceivable wobble, which immediately brings up questions
of stellar or planetary companions. Data collected showed a strange 69 day
period of wobble, which gave scientists an idea of what kind of object, how far
it was, and how big the object might be that orbited Drem. Further data showed
another wobble. The second wobble had a very long period of roughly 141 years.
The first orbit mentioned was estimated at roughly .5 Jupiter masses down to .1
Jupiter masses which would mean the planet was definitely a small Jovian. The second orbit was of a much larger object, this
one showed by being over 70 Jupiter masses, and was presented as a brown dwarf
with a disputed classification of a T-dwarf. Further observation by
near-infrared showed a large eccentricity in the orbit, so that the companion
travels anywhere about 11.5 AU all the way out to 24.5 AU. The
is a debate of fine wobbles within the companion itself which would mean
that the companion might have a companion of its own.
Survey Team Findings:
The Drem system thru probes and direct observation make the final
status of the companion to be a cool T6V. The companion is a cool Jupiter sized
dwarf, of roughly 1000K, with a small system to its own, which solves the long
held debate of the companions, wobbles. The Dremish system itself is like that
of what scientists had hoped for with Proxima
Centauri and Barnards Star, as Drem is very similar
in ways to both stars. Why Drem does not have flares, yet is still a fairly
young star still is perplexing, and requires further study. With the basic study of Drem underway, the
next phase is needed, and that is a full exploration of the planetary system of
both the main Drem star, and that of Drem B.
Copyright 2006 by Kevin Urbanczyk
All Rights Reserved
Used with Celestia
1.4.1
Chris Laurel
<claurel@www.shatters.net>
Clint Weisbrod
<cweisbrod@cogeco.ca>
Fridger Schrempp
<t00fri@mail.desy.de>
Bob Ippolito
<bob@redivi.com>
Christophe Teyssier
<chris@teyssier.org>
Hank Ramsey <hramsey@users.sourceforge.net>
Grant Hutchison
<granthutchison@blueyonder.co.uk>
Spectra thanks:
Astronomy Department of