20 Cancri
Star in the constellation Cancer
20 Cancri is an astrometric binary [ 6] star system in the constellation Cancer , located about 372 light-years away from the Sun . This system has the Bayer designation d1 Cancri ; 20 Cancri is the Flamsteed designation .[ 5] It is just visible to the naked eye under good viewing conditions, appearing as a dim, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.94.[ 2] The pair are moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +36 km/s,[ 4] and are members of the Hyades Supercluster .[ 7]
The visible component of this system is an ordinary A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A9 V,[ 3] which indicates it is generating energy by hydrogen fusion at its core . It has 2.4 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 60 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 7,907 K .[ 3]
References
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Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR .
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^ 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 "20 Cnc" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2019-02-25 .
^ Makarov, V. V.; Kaplan, G. H. (May 2005), "Statistical Constraints for Astrometric Binaries with Nonlinear Motion", The Astronomical Journal , 129 (5): 2420–2427, Bibcode :2005AJ....129.2420M , doi :10.1086/429590 .
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