16 Cygni, the Glossary
16 Cygni or 16 Cyg is a triple star system approximately 69 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus.[1]
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60 relations: Accretion (astrophysics), Active SETI, Angular diameter, Asteroseismology, Astrometry, Astronomical unit, Bright Star Catalogue, Constellation, Cosmic Call, Cygnus (constellation), Doppler spectroscopy, Durchmusterung, Earth mass, Eurasia, Exoplanet, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, G-type main-sequence star, Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars, Glossary of astronomy, HD 20782, HD 222582, HD 80606 and HD 80607, HD 89744, Henry Draper Catalogue, Hipparcos, Interferometry, Jupiter, Jupiter mass, Kepler space telescope, Lick Observatory, Light-year, Lithium, McDonald Observatory, Metallicity, Minute and second of arc, Orbit, Orbital eccentricity, Orbital elements, Parsec, Photometry (astronomy), Protoplanetary disk, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Radar, Radial velocity, Red dwarf, Semi-major and semi-minor axes, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog, Solar mass, Solar radius, Star catalogue, ... Expand index (10 more) »
- Maunder Minimum
- Multi-star planetary systems
Accretion (astrophysics)
In astrophysics, accretion is the accumulation of particles into a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter, typically gaseous matter, into an accretion disk.
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Active SETI
Active SETI (Active Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is the attempt to send messages to intelligent extraterrestrial life.
Angular diameter
The angular diameter, angular size, apparent diameter, or apparent size is an angular distance describing how large a sphere or circle appears from a given point of view.
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Asteroseismology
Asteroseismology is the study of oscillations in stars.
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Astrometry
Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies.
Astronomical unit
The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to.
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Bright Star Catalogue
The Bright Star Catalogue, also known as the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars, Yale Bright Star Catalogue, or just YBS, is a star catalogue that lists all stars of stellar magnitude 6.5 or brighter, which is roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth. 16 Cygni and bright Star Catalogue are bright Star Catalogue objects.
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Constellation
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.
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Cosmic Call
Cosmic Call was the name of two sets of interstellar radio messages that were sent from RT-70 in Yevpatoria, Ukraine in 1999 (Cosmic Call 1) and 2003 (Cosmic Call 2) to various nearby stars.
Cygnus (constellation)
Cygnus is a northern constellation on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinized Greek word for swan.
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Doppler spectroscopy
Doppler spectroscopy (also known as the radial-velocity method, or colloquially, the wobble method) is an indirect method for finding extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star.
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Durchmusterung
In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, published by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1863, with an extension published in Bonn in 1886.
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Earth mass
An Earth mass (denoted as M🜨, M♁ or ME, where 🜨 and ♁ are the astronomical symbols for Earth), is a unit of mass equal to the mass of the planet Earth.
Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
Exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia (also known as Encyclopaedia of exoplanetary systems and Catalogue of Exoplanets) is an astronomy website, founded in Paris, France at the Meudon Observatory by Jean Schneider in February 1995, which maintains a database of all the currently known and candidate extrasolar planets, with individual pages for each planet and a full list interactive catalog spreadsheet.
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G-type main-sequence star
A G-type main-sequence star (spectral type: G-V), also often, and imprecisely, called a yellow dwarf, or G star, is a main-sequence star (luminosity class V) of spectral type G. Such a star has about 0.9 to 1.1 solar masses and an effective temperature between about. 16 Cygni and g-type main-sequence star are g-type main-sequence stars.
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Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars
The Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars (English) is a star catalogue listing stars located within 25 parsecs (82 ly) of the Sun.
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Glossary of astronomy
This glossary of astronomy is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to astronomy and cosmology, their sub-disciplines, and related fields.
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HD 20782
HD 20782 (HIP 15527; LTT 1582) is the primary of a wide binary system located in the southern constellation Fornax. 16 Cygni and HD 20782 are g-type main-sequence stars, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects, multi-star planetary systems and planetary systems with one confirmed planet.
HD 222582
|- style. 16 Cygni and HD 222582 are g-type main-sequence stars, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and planetary systems with one confirmed planet.
HD 80606 and HD 80607
HD 80606 and HD 80607 are two stars comprising a binary star system. 16 Cygni and HD 80606 and HD 80607 are g-type main-sequence stars, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects, multi-star planetary systems and planetary systems with one confirmed planet.
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HD 89744
HD 89744 is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Major, positioned about 0.4° due south of the bright star Tania Australis (μ UMa). 16 Cygni and HD 89744 are bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects and Hipparcos objects.
Henry Draper Catalogue
The Henry Draper Catalogue (HD) is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension (HDE), published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the Henry Draper Extension Charts (HDEC), published from 1937 to 1949 in the form of charts, which gave classifications for 86,933 more stars. 16 Cygni and Henry Draper Catalogue are Henry Draper Catalogue objects.
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Hipparcos
Hipparcos was a scientific satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 1989 and operated until 1993.
Interferometry
Interferometry is a technique which uses the interference of superimposed waves to extract information.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
Jupiter mass
Jupiter mass, also called Jovian mass, is the unit of mass equal to the total mass of the planet Jupiter.
Kepler space telescope
The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars.
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Lick Observatory
The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California.
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Light-year
A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (Scientific notation: 9.4607304725808 × 1012 km), which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi.
Lithium
Lithium is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3.
McDonald Observatory
McDonald Observatory is an astronomical observatory located near unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States.
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In astronomy, metallicity is the abundance of elements present in an object that are heavier than hydrogen and helium.
Minute and second of arc
A minute of arc, arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc, denoted by the symbol, is a unit of angular measurement equal to of one degree.
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Orbit
In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point.
Orbital eccentricity
In astrodynamics, the orbital eccentricity of an astronomical object is a dimensionless parameter that determines the amount by which its orbit around another body deviates from a perfect circle.
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Orbital elements
Orbital elements are the parameters required to uniquely identify a specific orbit.
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Parsec
The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to or (AU), i.e..
Photometry (astronomy)
In astronomy, photometry, from Greek photo- ("light") and -metry ("measure"), is a technique used in astronomy that is concerned with measuring the flux or intensity of light radiated by astronomical objects.
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Protoplanetary disk
A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disc of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star.
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (often abbreviated as PASP in references and literature) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal managed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
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Radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.
Radial velocity
The radial velocity or line-of-sight velocity of a target with respect to an observer is the rate of change of the vector displacement between the two points.
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Red dwarf
A red dwarf is the smallest kind of star on the main sequence.
Semi-major and semi-minor axes
In geometry, the major axis of an ellipse is its longest diameter: a line segment that runs through the center and both foci, with ends at the two most widely separated points of the perimeter.
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog is an astrometric star catalogue, created by Smithsonian Institution, a research institute.
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Solar mass
The solar mass is a standard unit of mass in astronomy, equal to approximately.
Solar radius
Solar radius is a unit of distance used to express the size of stars in astronomy relative to the Sun.
Star catalogue
A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars.
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Star system
A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars that orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction.
Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics.
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. 16 Cygni and Sun are g-type main-sequence stars.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.
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Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope
The Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope (P-2500, RT-70) is an RT-70 radio telescope and planetary radar at the Center for Deep Space Communications, Yevpatoria, Crimea.
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16 Cygni Bb
16 Cygni Bb or HD 186427 b is an extrasolar planet approximately away in the constellation of Cygnus. 16 Cygni and 16 Cygni Bb are Cygnus (constellation).
30 Arietis
30 Arietis (abbreviated 30 Ari) is a 6th-apparent-magnitude multiple star system in the constellation of Aries. 16 Cygni and 30 Arietis are bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects and Hipparcos objects.
54 Piscium
54 Piscium is an orange dwarf star approximately 36 light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. 16 Cygni and 54 Piscium are bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects, Maunder Minimum and planetary systems with one confirmed planet.
61 Cygni
61 Cygni is a binary star system in the constellation Cygnus, consisting of a pair of K-type dwarf stars that orbit each other in a period of about 659 years. 16 Cygni and 61 Cygni are bright Star Catalogue objects, Cygnus (constellation), Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects and Hipparcos objects.
83 Leonis
83 Leonis, abbreviated 83 Leo, is a binary star system approximately 59 light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion). 16 Cygni and 83 Leonis are bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects and Hipparcos objects.
See also
Maunder Minimum
- 16 Cygni
- 47 Ursae Majoris
- 51 Pegasi
- 54 Piscium
- 61 Virginis
- Alpha Centauri
- Beta Aquilae
- Chi Herculis
- HD 10307
- HD 168009
- HD 93385
- HR 6806
- Lambda Aurigae
- Maunder Minimum
- Psi Serpentis
- Tau Ceti
- Zeta Reticuli
Multi-star planetary systems
- 16 Cygni
- 55 Cancri
- 91 Aquarii
- ADS 16402
- ADS 7251
- Alpha Centauri
- DS Tucanae
- Dawn (McLaughlin novel)
- Fomalhaut
- GSC 02620-00648
- GSC 03549-02811
- Gliese 667
- Gliese 676
- HD 113337
- HD 116029
- HD 133131
- HD 142245
- HD 189733
- HD 20781
- HD 20782
- HD 217786
- HD 40979
- HD 7449
- HD 80606 and HD 80607
- Kepler-16
- Kepler-432
- Kepler-47
- LTT 1445
- NN Serpentis
- NY Virginis
- PSR B1620−26
- Tau Boötis
- UZ Fornacis
- Upsilon Andromedae
- WASP-12
- XO-2
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Cygni
Also known as 16 Cyg, 16 Cygni B, 16 Cygni B Solar System, C Cygni.
, Star system, Stellar classification, Sun, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope, 16 Cygni Bb, 30 Arietis, 54 Piscium, 61 Cygni, 83 Leonis.