HD 48265
HD 48265, also named Nosaxa, is a star in the southern constellation Puppis. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 8.07, which makes it too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Based upon parallax measurements made during the Gaia mission, it is located at a distance of from Earth. It hosts two known planets, HD 48265 b and c.
Nomenclature
HD 48265 is the star's designation in the Henry Draper Catalogue.
This was one of the systems selected to be named in the 2019 NameExoWorlds campaign during the 100th anniversary of the IAU, which assigned each country a star and planet to be named. This system was assigned to Argentina. HD 48265 is named Nosaxa and HD 48265 b Naqaỹa in the Moqoit language.
This star has a stellar classification of G5IV/V, suggesting that, at an age of 4.8 billion years, it has reached an intermediate evolutionary stage between a main sequence star and a subgiant. It has but 93% of the mass of the Sun, while its outer atmosphere has begun to expand, reaching about 2.3 times the Sun's radius. HD 48265 is radiating 62% of the Sun's luminosity from its atmosphere at an effective temperature of 5,508 K, giving it the yellowish glow of a G-type star. Measurement of the chemical abundances of this star indicate that, compared to the Sun, it has a 95% greater proportion of elements other than hydrogen and helium—what astronomers term the star's metallicity.
In October 2008 an exoplanet, HD 48265 b, was reported to be orbiting this star. This object was detected using the radial velocity method during an astronomical survey conducted by the Magellan Planet Search Program using the MIKE echelle spectrograph on the 6.5-m Magellan II (Clay) telescope. A second planet was found in 2026 using a combination of radial velocity and astrometry. Both are gas giants more massive than Jupiter; they may be on mutually inclined orbits.