6 Canum Venaticorum

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Short description: Star in the constellation Canes Venatici
6 Canum Venaticorum
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Canes Venatici
Right ascension  12h 25m 50.93786s[1]
Declination +39° 01′ 07.0195″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) +5.01[2]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage horizontal branch[3]
Spectral type G9 III[4]
B−V color index 0.94[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−4.17±0.33[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −77.335[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −33.782[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)13.2764 ± 0.2086[1] mas
Distance246 ± 4 ly
(75 ± 1 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)0.65±0.044[6]
Details
Mass2.04[2] M
Radius9[5] R
Luminosity67.6[2] L
Surface gravity (log g)2.8[5] cgs
Temperature4,938±21[2] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.11[5] dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)0.0[5] km/s
Age2.05[2] Gyr
Other designations
6 CVn, BD+39° 2521, FK5 461, HD 108225, HIP 60646, HR 4728, SAO 63000[7]
Database references
SIMBADdata

6 Canum Venaticorum is a single[8] star in the northern constellation Canes Venatici, located 246 light years from the Sun.[1] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.01.[2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −4.2 km/s.[5]

This is an evolved G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G9 III,[4] which means it has exhausted the hydrogen supply at its core and expanded. It is a red clump giant, indicating that it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through the helium fusion at its core.[3] Data from the Hipparcos mission provided evidence of microvariability with an amplitude of 0.0056 in magnitude and a frequency of 0.00636 per day, or one cycle every 157 days.[9]

6 Canum Venaticorum is about two[2] billion years old with double[2] the mass of the Sun. It has expanded to 9[5] times the Sun's radius and is radiating 68[2] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,938 K.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Luck, R. Earle (2015), "Abundances in the Local Region. I. G and K Giants", Astronomical Journal 150 (3): 88, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/88, Bibcode2015AJ....150...88L. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Alves, David R. (August 2000), "K-Band Calibration of the Red Clump Luminosity", The Astrophysical Journal 539 (2): 732–741, doi:10.1086/309278, Bibcode2000ApJ...539..732A. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 71: 245, doi:10.1086/191373, Bibcode1989ApJS...71..245K. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Massarotti, Alessandro et al. (January 2008), "Rotational and Radial Velocities for a Sample of 761 HIPPARCOS Giants and the Role of Binarity", The Astronomical Journal 135 (1): 209–231, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/209, Bibcode2008AJ....135..209M. 
  6. Park, Sunkyung et al. (2013), "Wilson-Bappu Effect: Extended to Surface Gravity", The Astronomical Journal 146 (4): 73, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/146/4/73, Bibcode2013AJ....146...73P. 
  7. "6 CVn". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=6+CVn. 
  8. Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 389 (2): 869, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x, Bibcode2008MNRAS.389..869E. 
  9. Koen, Chris; Eyer, Laurent (2002), "New periodic variables from the Hipparcos epoch photometry", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 331 (1): 45, doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05150.x, Bibcode2002MNRAS.331...45K. 




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