66 Cancri
Binary star system in the constellation of Cancer
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
^ a b c Brown, A. G. A. ; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 616 . A1. arXiv :1804.09365 . Bibcode :2018A&A...616A...1G . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201833051 . Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR .
^ a b c d e f g Gullikson, Kevin; Kraus, Adam; Dodson-Robinson, Sarah (2016), "The Close Companion Mass-ratio Distribution of Intermediate-mass Stars", The Astronomical Journal , 152 (2): 40, arXiv :1604.06456 , Bibcode :2016AJ....152...40G , doi :10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/40 , S2CID 119179065 .
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^ a b Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters , 38 (5): 331, arXiv :1108.4971 , Bibcode :2012AstL...38..331A , doi :10.1134/S1063773712050015 , S2CID 119257644 .
^ a b 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, arXiv :1208.3048 , Bibcode :2012A&A...546A..61D , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201219219 , S2CID 59451347 , A61 .
^ a b van Leeuwen, F. (November 2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 474 (2): 653– 664, arXiv :0708.1752 , Bibcode :2007A&A...474..653V , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20078357 , S2CID 18759600 .
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^ a b Roberts, Lewis C. Jr.; et al. (November 2005), "Adaptive Optics Photometry and Astrometry of Binary Stars", The Astronomical Journal , 130 (5): 2262– 2271, Bibcode :2005AJ....130.2262R , doi :10.1086/491586 .
^ Gullikson, Kevin; et al. (August 2016), "The Close Companion Mass-ratio Distribution of Intermediate-mass Stars", The Astronomical Journal , 152 (2): 13, arXiv :1604.06456 , Bibcode :2016AJ....152...40G , doi :10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/40 , S2CID 119179065 , 40 .