Kappa Cancri
Star in the constellation Cancer
Kappa Cancri , Latinized from κ Cancri, is a blue-white hued binary star system in the zodiac constellation of Cancer . It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.23.[ 3] The magnitude difference between the two stars is about 2.6.[ 10] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.3209 mas as seen from the Earth,[ 2] the system is located roughly 610 light-years from the Sun .
This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary [ 3] star system with an orbital period of 6.39 days and an eccentricity of 0.13.[ 7] The primary, component A, has a stellar classification of B8 IIIp,[ 4] suggesting it is a B-type giant star . It a mercury-manganese star , a type of chemically peculiar star showing large overabundances of those two elements in the outer atmosphere.[ 3] It is classified as an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum type variable star and its brightness varies from magnitude +5.22 to +5.27 with a period of five days.[ 5]
The primary component has 4.5 times the mass of the Sun, five times the Sun's radius, and an effective temperature of 13,200 K . The secondary, component B, is a smaller star with 2.1 times the mass and 2.4 times the radius of the Sun, having an effective temperature of 8,500 K .[ 8]
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^ a b Pourbaix, D.; et al. (2004), "SB9 : The ninth catalogue of spectroscopic binary orbits", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 424 (2): 727–732, arXiv :astro-ph/0406573 , Bibcode :2004A&A...424..727P , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20041213 , S2CID 119387088 .
^ a b Ryabchikova, T. (April 1998), "Abundance analysis of SB2 binary stars with HgMn primaries", Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnate Pleso , 27 (3): 319–323, arXiv :astro-ph/9805063 , Bibcode :1998CoSka..27..319R .
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^ Ryabchikova, T.; et al. (April 1998), "Discovery of the secondary star of the HgMn binary kappa CANCRI", Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnate Pleso , 27 (3): 258–260, arXiv :astro-ph/9805143 , Bibcode :1998CoSka..27..258R .