astro.wikisort.org - Star60 Cancri is a star in the zodiac constellation Cancer, located about 850 light years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.44.[2] 60 Cancri is situated near the ecliptic, so it is subject to the occasional occultation by the Moon.[7] It is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +25 km/s.[1]
Orange-hued giant star in the constellation Cancer
60 Cancri
Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 |
Constellation |
Cancer |
Right ascension |
08h 55m 55.54693s[1] |
Declination |
+11° 37′ 33.6990″[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) |
+5.44[2] |
Characteristics |
Evolutionary stage |
giant |
Spectral type |
K5 III[3][2][4] |
B−V color index |
1.462±0.004[2] |
Astrometry |
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Radial velocity (Rv) | +25.38±0.16[1] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: −15.443[1] mas/yr Dec.: −13.539[1] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 3.8596 ± 0.1340 mas[1] |
Distance | 850 ± 30 ly (259 ± 9 pc) |
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Mass | 1.42±0.45 M☉ |
Radius | 54[6] R☉ |
Luminosity | 669.87[2] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 1.28±0.11 cgs |
Temperature | 4,150±92 K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.01±0.05 dex |
Age | 1.15+0.67 −0.43 Gyr |
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SIMBAD | data |
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K5 III,[3] indicating it has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and evolved off the main sequence. It is a suspected variable star of unknown type.[8] The interferometry-measured angular diameter of the primary component, after correcting for limb darkening, is 1.94±0.02 mas,[9] which, at its estimated distance, equates to a physical radius of about 54 times the radius of the Sun.[6] It is around 1.15 billion years old with 1.4 times the mass of the Sun.[5] The star is radiating 670[2] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,150 K.[5]
References
- 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.
- 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.
- Adams, Walter S.; et al. (April 1935), "The Spectroscopic Absolute Magnitudes and Parallaxes of 4179 Stars", Astrophysical Journal, 81: 187, Bibcode:1935ApJ....81..187A, doi:10.1086/143628.
- "60 Cnc". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- Feuillet, Diane K.; et al. (2016), "Determining Ages of APOGEE Giants with Known Distances", The Astrophysical Journal, 817: 40, arXiv:1511.04088, Bibcode:2016ApJ...817...40F, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/817/1/40, S2CID 118675933.
- Lang, Kenneth R. (2006), Astrophysical formulae, Astronomy and astrophysics library, vol. 1 (3rd ed.), Birkhäuser, ISBN 3-540-29692-1. The radius (R*) is given by:

- White, Nathaniel M.; Feierman, Barry H. (September 1987), "A Catalog of Stellar Angular Diameters Measured by Lunar Occultation", Astronomical Journal, 94: 751, Bibcode:1987AJ.....94..751W, doi:10.1086/114513.
- Samus N. N.; et al. (2017), "General Catalogue of Variable Stars", Astronomy Reports, 5.1, 61 (1): 80–88, Bibcode:2017ARep...61...80S, doi:10.1134/S1063772917010085, S2CID 125853869.
- Richichi, A.; et al. (February 2005), "CHARM2: An updated Catalog of High Angular Resolution Measurements", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 431 (2): 773–777, Bibcode:2005A&A...431..773R, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20042039
Constellation of Cancer |
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Galaxies | NGC | |
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Other |
- 3C 191
- 3C 212
- 3C 215
- OJ 287
- QSO B0839+187
- DLA0817g
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На других языках
- [en] 60 Cancri
[ru] 60 Рака
60 Рака (лат. 60 Cancri) — переменная звезда, которая находится в созвездии Рака на расстоянии приблизительно 582 световых лет от Солнечной системы и имеет звёздную величину +5.45. Это оранжевый гигант спектрального класса К.
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