Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
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Constellation | Cancer |
Right ascension | 09h 01m 48.83393s [1] |
Declination | +27° 54′ 09.3505″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 6.07 [2] (6.08 + 9.22) [3] |
Characteristics | |
Evolutionary stage | main sequence |
Spectral type | A8 Vn [4] |
B−V color index | 0.243±0.008 [2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | +12.0±4.3 [5] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) |
RA: −57.037
[1]
mas/
yr Dec.: −80.127 [1] mas/ yr |
Parallax (π) | 16.7647 ± 0.1550 mas [1] |
Distance | 195 ± 2
ly (59.6 ± 0.6 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | 2.25 [2] |
Details | |
67 Cnc A | |
Mass | 1.89 [6] M☉ |
Radius | 1.90+0.07 −0.14 [1] R☉ |
Luminosity | 10.465+0.111 −0.112 [1] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 4.35 [6] cgs |
Temperature | 7,982±271 [6] K |
Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 105 [7] km/s |
Age | 867 [6] Myr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
67 Cancri is a wide binary star [9] system in the zodiac constellation of Cancer, located 195 [1] light years away from the Sun. It is just visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with a combined apparent magnitude of 6.07. [2] The binary nature of this system was discovered by James South and John Herschel. [3] As of 2007, the two components have an angular separation of 103.9 ″, corresponding to a projected separation of 6,100 AU. [9] They are moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +12 km/s. [5]
The primary, designated component A, is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A8 Vn. [4] The 'n' notation indicates "nebulous" lines due to rapid rotation. It is a shell star, [10] with weak shell lines of singly-ionized titanium being detected in the near ultraviolet in 1970. These may have come from a sporadic mass loss event. [11] Uesugi and Fukuda (1970) gave a projected rotational velocity estimate of 105 [7] km/s for the star, although Abt et al. (1997) suggested it could be as high as 205 km/s. [11]
67 Cancri A is about 867 [6] million years old with 1.89 [6] times the mass of the Sun and 1.90 [1] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 10.5 [1] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 7,982 K. [6]