Astronomy:67 Cancri

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Short description: Wide binary star system in the constellation Cancer
67 Cancri
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Cancer
Right ascension  09h 01m 48.83127s[1]
Declination +27° 54′ 09.3652″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 6.07[2] (6.08 + 9.22)[3]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage main sequence[1]
Spectral type A8 Vn[4]
B−V color index 0.243±0.008[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+12.0±4.3[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −54.797[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −81.038[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)17.6457 ± 0.0758[1] mas
Distance184.8 ± 0.8 ly
(56.7 ± 0.2 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)2.25[2]
Details
67 Cnc A
Mass1.89[6] M
Radius1.86[7] R
Luminosity10.4[7] L
Surface gravity (log g)4.35[6] cgs
Temperature7,982±271[6] K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)105[8] km/s
Age867[6] Myr
Other designations
67 Cnc, BD+28°1674, HD 77190, HIP 44342, HR 3589, SAO 80585, WDS 09014+3215[9]
Database references
SIMBADdata

67 Cancri is a wide binary star[10] system in the zodiac constellation of Cancer, located 185 light years away from the Sun.[1] It is just visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with a combined apparent magnitude of 6.07.[2] The binary nature of this system was discovered by James South and John Herschel.[3] As of 2007, the two components have an angular separation of 103.9, corresponding to a projected separation of 6,100 astronomical unit|AU.[10] They are moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +12 km/s.[5]

The primary, designated component A, is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A8 Vn.[4] The 'n' notation indicates "nebulous" lines due to rapid rotation. It is a shell star,[11] with weak shell lines of singly-ionized titanium being detected in the near ultraviolet in 1970. These may have come from a sporadic mass loss event.[12] Uesugi and Fukuda (1970) gave a projected rotational velocity estimate of 105[8] km/s for the star, although Abt et al. (1997) suggested it could be as high as 205 km/s.[12]

67 Cancri A is about 867 million years old[6] with 1.89 times the mass of the Sun[6] and 1.9 times the Sun's radius.[6] It is radiating 10.4 times the Sun's luminosity[6] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 7,982 K.[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Vallenari, A. et al. (2022). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940  Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Mason, B. D. et al. (2014), "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog", The Astronomical Journal 122 (6): 3466, doi:10.1086/323920, Bibcode2001AJ....122.3466M. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Cowley, A. et al. (April 1969), "A study of the bright A stars. I. A catalogue of spectral classifications", Astronomical Journal 74: 375–406, doi:10.1086/110819, Bibcode1969AJ.....74..375C. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 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, Bibcode2012A&A...546A..61D. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 David, Trevor J.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. (2015), "The Ages of Early-Type Stars: Strömgren Photometric Methods Calibrated, Validated, Tested, and Applied to Hosts and Prospective Hosts of Directly Imaged Exoplanets", The Astrophysical Journal 804 (2): 146, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/146, Bibcode2015ApJ...804..146D. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Stassun, Keivan G. et al. (2019). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List". The Astronomical Journal 158 (4): 138. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467. Bibcode2019AJ....158..138S. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 Uesugi, Akira; Fukuda, Ichiro (1970), "Catalogue of rotational velocities of the stars", Contributions from the Institute of Astrophysics and Kwasan Observatory (University of Kyoto), Bibcode1970crvs.book.....U. 
  9. "67 Cnc". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=67+Cnc. 
  10. 10.0 10.1 Trilling, D. E. et al. (April 2007), "Debris disks in main-sequence binary systems", The Astrophysical Journal 658 (2): 1264–1288, doi:10.1086/511668, Bibcode2007ApJ...658.1289T. 
  11. Hauck, B.; Jaschek, C. (2000), "A-shell stars in the Geneva system", Astronomy and Astrophysics 354: 157, Bibcode2000A&A...354..157H. 
  12. 12.0 12.1 Abt, Helmut A. et al. (September 1997), "Hot Inner Disks that Appear and Disappear Around Rapidly Rotating A-Type Dwarfs", The Astrophysical Journal 487 (1): 365–369, doi:10.1086/304603, Bibcode1997ApJ...487..365A.