Krios

Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann, Doris Vickers

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"Krios" is the Greek term for the Ram. The name is in SIMBAD for HD 240429 (V=9.7 mag).

Concordance, Etymology, History

Semyeong Oh+ 2018 2018ApJ...854..138O, w/Kronos

"Throughout the article, we nickname the two stars Kronos (HD 240430) and Krios (HD 240429). In Greek mythology, Kronos and Krios were sons of the gods Uranos and Gaia. Kronos notoriously devoured all of his children (except for Zeus) to prevent a prophecy from coming true, which predicted that he would be overthrown by them one day."

"Krios and Kronos were identified as a candidate comoving star pair in our recent search for comoving stars using the proper motions and parallaxes from the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution catalog (TGAS), a component of Gaia DR1. We refer the readers to this previous work (Oh et al. 2017) for a full explanation of the method behind this search...."

Miquelarena et al 2024 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26A...688A..73M/abstract speak of "the benchmark pair Krios and Kronos".

Mythology

In Greek mythology, Crius (also known as Krios or Kreios; Ancient Greek: Κρεῖος or Κριός) was one of the twelve primordial Titans, the monumental offspring of Uranus (the personification of the Sky) and Gaia (the personification of the Earth).

IAU Working Group on Star Names

The name has been in SIMBAD for long time and was approved by the IAU WGSN in 202x. As this star is already named ..., the WGSN chose ... (not to apply/ to apply the name to a neighbouring star/ to ...) in the IAU-CSN.

Reference

• References (general)
• References (early modern)
• Ian Ridpath's website (Star Tales )