Star in the constellation Camelopardalis
42 Camelopardalis is a single[ 11] star in the constellation Camelopardalis ,[ 10] located roughly 770 light years away from the Sun.[ 1] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.14.[ 2] The visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction of 0.22 due to interstellar dust .[ 12] It is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 3 km/s.[ 4] 42 Camelopardalis has a peculiar velocity of 24.4+1.9 −2.1 km/s and may be a runaway star .[ 6]
Observations made in 1933 appeared to suggest this could be a Beta Cephei variable ,[ 13] but this was not confirmed by follow-up measurements.[ 14] The star has a stellar classification of B4 IV,[ 3] matching a B-type subgiant star . It has 6.5[ 6] times the mass of the Sun and about 5.6[ 7] times the Sun's radius . 42 Camelopardalis is 50[ 6] million years old with a high rotation rate, showing a projected rotational velocity of 105 km/s.[ 9] It is radiating 2,460[ 8] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 16,550 K.[ 8] This star is notable as demonstrating similarities between the short-period B-type variables and the Cepheid variables .[citation needed ]
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^ a b Strom, Stephen E.; et al. (2005), "B Star Rotational Velocities in h and χ Persei: A Probe of Initial Conditions during the Star Formation Epoch?", The Astronomical Journal , 129 (2): 809– 828, arXiv :astro-ph/0410337 , Bibcode :2005AJ....129..809S , doi :10.1086/426748 , S2CID 15059129 .
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^ Gontcharov, G. A. (November 2012), "Spatial distribution and kinematics of OB stars", Astronomy Letters , 38 (11): 694– 706, arXiv :1606.09028 , Bibcode :2012AstL...38..694G , doi :10.1134/S1063773712110035 , S2CID 119108982 .
^ Edwards, D. L. (1933), "Variations in the Spectrum of 42 Camelopardalis", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 93 (9): 729– 735, Bibcode :1933MNRAS..93..729E , doi :10.1093/mnras/93.9.729 .
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