The system consists of a spectroscopic binary,[8][5] designated Kappa Persei A, which can be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 3.80.[2] The third star, designated Kappa Persei B, is of magnitude 13.50.[9]
Kappa Persei A's two components are designated Kappa Persei Aa (officially named Misam/ˈmaɪzəm/, the traditional name of the entire system)[10] and Ab.
Nomenclature
κ Persei (Latinised to Kappa Persei) is the system's Bayer designation. The designations of the two constituents as Kappa Persei A and B, and those of A's components - Kappa Persei Aa and Ab - derive from the convention used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog (WMC) for multiple star systems, and adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).[11]
The traditional name comes from the Arabic مِعْصَم miʽṣam 'wrist'.
In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN)[12] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN decided to attribute proper names to individual stars rather than entire multiple systems.[13] It approved the name Misam for the component Kappa Persei Aa on 5 September 2017 and it is now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.[10]
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^ abKeenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 71: 245, Bibcode:1989ApJS...71..245K, doi:10.1086/191373.
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