14_Aurigae

14 Aurigae

14 Aurigae

Quadruple star system in the constellation Auriga

14 Aurigae is a quadruple star system located 269[2] light years away from the Sun in the zodiac constellation of Auriga. It has the variable star designation KW Aurigae, whereas 14 Aurigae is the Flamsteed designation.[9] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 5.01.[3] The system is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of −9 km/s.[3]

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The magnitude 5.08[4] primary member, designated component A, is a single-lined spectroscopic binary system in a circular orbit with a period of 3.7887 days.[10] The visible member has a stellar classification of A9 IV or A V, depending on the source,[11] and is a Delta Scuti variable with an amplitude of 0.08 magnitude and a period of 2.11 hours.[6] It is 609 million years old with 1.64 times the mass of the Sun.[7]

Component B lies about 10″ to the north of the primary and is merely a visual companion. However, component C, an F-type main sequence star of magnitude 7.86,[4] shares a common proper motion with component A and thus they form a system. This member is also a single-lined spectroscopic binary, having a period of 2.9934 days. The final member of the system, now designated component Cb, is a white dwarf star that is separated from the C, or rather Ca pair by 2″. If it is indeed bound to Ca, its orbital period is around 1,300 years.[11]

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