| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Cancer |
| Right ascension | 09h 10m 20.85841s [1] |
| Declination | +21° 59′ 47.1000″ [1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 6.04 [2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Evolutionary stage | giant |
| Spectral type | G5 III [3] |
| B−V color index | 0.871 [4] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −3.24±0.13 [1] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) |
RA: +2.933
[1]
mas/
yr Dec.: +5.027 [1] mas/ yr |
| Parallax (π) | 8.1569 ± 0.0676 mas [1] |
| Distance | 400 ± 3
ly (123 ± 1 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | 0.78 [2] |
| Details | |
| Mass | 2.30 [4] M☉ |
| Radius | 9.41+0.38 −0.57 [1] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 57.6±0.6 [1] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 2.88 [5] cgs |
| Temperature | 5,076±47 [4] K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.10 [5] dex |
| Age | 770 [4] Myr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
79 Cancri is a star in the constellation Cancer, located 400 light years from the Sun. [1] It is just visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.04. [2] This object is gradually moving slower to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −3.2 km/s. [1]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of G5 III, [3] which indicates that, at the age of 770 [4] million years, it has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and evolved away from the main sequence. The star has 2.30 [4] times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 9.4 [1] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 58 [1] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,076 K. [4]
References
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- ^ a b Cowley, A. P.; Bidelman, W. P. (February 1979), "MK spectral types for some F and G stars", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 91: 83–86, Bibcode: 1979PASP...91...83C, doi: 10.1086/130446.
- ^ a b c d e f g Luck, R. Earle (2015), "Abundances in the Local Region. I. G and K Giants", Astronomical Journal, 150 (3), 88, arXiv: 1507.01466, Bibcode: 2015AJ....150...88L, doi: 10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/88, S2CID 118505114.
- ^ a b Liu, Y. J.; et al. (April 2014), "The Lithium Abundances of a Large Sample of Red Giants", The Astrophysical Journal, 785 (2): 12, arXiv: 1404.1687, Bibcode: 2014ApJ...785...94L, doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/785/2/94, S2CID 119226316, 94.
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