Binary star system in the constellation Coma Berenices
23 Comae Berenices is a binary star [ 7] system in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices , situated a few degrees away from the North Galactic Pole .[ 11] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.80.[ 2] The system is located around 310 light years away from the Sun, based on parallax .[ 1] It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −16 km/s.[ 6]
The components of this system orbit each other with a period of 33 years, a large eccentricity of 0.9, and an angular semimajor axis of 0.219″ .[ 7] The primary, designated component A, is a magnitude 4.96[ 3] star with a stellar classification of A0IV,[ 4] matching an A-type subgiant that has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core and is in the process of evolving into a giant . Bychkov et al. (2009) list it as an Am star with an average field strength of 26× 10−4 T .[ 12]
The primary is 210[ 8] million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 40 km/s.[ 8] It has 2.15[ 8] times the mass of the Sun and about three[ 9] times the Sun's radius . The star is radiating 104[ 2] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9,675 K.[ 8]
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