Astronomy:66 Cancri
| Observation data Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Cancer |
| Right ascension | 09h 01m 24.13000s[1] |
| Declination | +32° 15′ 08.2666″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.870[2] (5.95 + 8.56)[3] |
| Characteristics | |
| Evolutionary stage | main sequence[4] |
| Spectral type | A2 V[2] |
| B−V color index | 0.088±0.007[5] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −12.8±2.9[6] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: +0.48[7] mas/yr Dec.: +0.34[7] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 6.8850 ± 0.1020[1] mas |
| Distance | 474 ± 7 ly (145 ± 2 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | 0.14[5] |
| Details | |
| Mass | 2.73±0.11[4] M☉ |
| Luminosity | 95.7+24.6 −19.5[4] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 4.0[2][4] cgs |
| Temperature | 8,974+230 −224[4] K |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 183[4] km/s |
| Age | 162[2] Myr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
66 Cancri is a binary star[9] system near the northern border of the zodiac constellation of Cancer, located 474 light years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 5.87.[2] The pair are moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −13 light years.[6] As of 2003, the magnitude 8.56 companion was located at an angular separation of 4.43″ along a position angle of 134° from the primary.[9]
The brighter member of the system, designated component A, is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A2 V.[2] It is around 162[2] million years old with a high rate of spin, showing a projected rotational velocity of 183 km/s.[4] Estimates of the mass of the star range from 1.7[10] up to 2.73[4] times the mass of the Sun. It is radiating 96[4] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,974 K.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Gullikson, Kevin; Kraus, Adam; Dodson-Robinson, Sarah (2016), "The Close Companion Mass-ratio Distribution of Intermediate-mass Stars", The Astronomical Journal 152 (2): 40, doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/40, Bibcode: 2016AJ....152...40G.
- ↑ Mason, B. D. et al. (2014), "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog", The Astronomical Journal 122 (6): 3466, doi:10.1086/323920, Bibcode: 2001AJ....122.3466M.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Zorec, J.; Royer, F.; Asplund, Martin; Cassisi, Santi; Ramirez, Ivan; Melendez, Jorge (2012), "Rotational velocities of A-type stars. IV. Evolution of rotational velocities", Astronomy and Astrophysics 537: A120, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201117691, Bibcode: 2012A&A...537A.120Z.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode: 2012AstL...38..331A.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Eilers, A.-C. (October 2012), "Radial velocities for the HIPPARCOS-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project", Astronomy & Astrophysics 546: 14, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219219, A61, Bibcode: 2012A&A...546A..61D.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 van Leeuwen, F. (November 2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction", Astronomy and Astrophysics 474 (2): 653–664, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078357, Bibcode: 2007A&A...474..653V.
- ↑ "66 Cnc". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=66+Cnc.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Roberts, Lewis C. Jr. et al. (November 2005), "Adaptive Optics Photometry and Astrometry of Binary Stars", The Astronomical Journal 130 (5): 2262–2271, doi:10.1086/491586, Bibcode: 2005AJ....130.2262R.
- ↑ Gullikson, Kevin et al. (August 2016), "The Close Companion Mass-ratio Distribution of Intermediate-mass Stars", The Astronomical Journal 152 (2): 13, doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/40, 40, Bibcode: 2016AJ....152...40G.
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