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    An RS Canum Venaticorum variable is a type of variable star. The variable type consists of close binary stars having active chromospheres which can cause...
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    RS Canum Venaticorum is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. It serves as the prototype to the class of RS Canum Venaticorum...
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    Flare star (redirect from UV Ceti variable)
    be capable of flaring.[citation needed] The more massive RS Canum Venaticorum variables (RS CVn) are also known to flare, but it is understood that these...
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    less than 0.5 magnitudes (70% change in luminosity). Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum (α2 CVn) variables are main-sequence stars of spectral class B8–A7 that show...
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    Capella (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    Betelgeuse and Vega, which are also variable. The system has been classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable, a class of binary stars with active...
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    spectroscopic binary star with a period of 480 years, and a suspected RS Canum Venaticorum variable. The primary is a yellow-hued star of magnitude 3.5 and the...
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  • Xi Ursae Majoris (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable and its brightness varies by 0.01 magnitude. Component B is believed to be the variable star, showing characteristic...
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    Gliese 268 (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    Gliese 268 (QY Aurigae) is a RS Canum Venaticorum variable (RS CVn) star in the Auriga constellation. RS CVn variables are binary star systems with a...
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    least one giant or supergiant component KE = contact binary RS = RS Canum Venaticorum variable SD = semi-detached binary "MAST: Barbara A. Mikulski Archive...
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    2009. Only slightly farther away is V478 Lyrae, an eclipsing RS Canum Venaticorum variable whose primary star shows active starspot activity. One of the...
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    HR 5110 (redirect from BH Canum Venaticorum)
    consuming the hydrogen at its core. HR 5110 is classified as a RS Canum Venaticorum variable system, primarily due to chromospheric activity in the secondary...
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    DS Tucanae (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    Tucana. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 8.5, and is a RS Canum Venaticorum variable. The system is notable for being young as a member of the 45...
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    G0V star. It is listed in the General Catalog of Variable Stars as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable, varying between visual magnitude 4.38 and 4.41. Stępień...
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    22. A yellow giant of spectral type G5III, the primary is a RS Canum Venaticorum variable star. It is a spectroscopic binary, with a companion 0.36 AU...
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    II Pegasi (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    4 and a distance of 130 light-years. It is a very active RS Canum Venaticorum variable (RS CVn), a close binary system with active starspots. The primary...
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    TY Pyxidis (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    the Sun. The system is classified as either a RS Canum Venaticorum variable or a BY Draconis variable, stars that vary on account of prominent starspot...
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    Iota Trianguli (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    of the stars as they rotate, and also it is classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable. Together with 10 Trianguli and 12 Trianguli, it forms part...
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    GU Piscium (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    GU Piscium is a star in the constellation Pisces. An RS Canum Venaticorum variable, it ranges from magnitude 12.96 to 13.24 over 1.04 days. It is 48 Parsecs...
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    36 Ophiuchi (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    proper-motion Star B: LHS 438 -- High proper-motion Star C: V* V2215 Oph -- Variable of RS CVn type Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2021). "Gaia...
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    Omicron Draconis (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    secondary has been detected using interferometry. It is an RS Canum Venaticorum variable system with eclipses. The total amplitude of variation is only...
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    orbiting each other every 20 days, the brighter component a RS Canum Venaticorum variable. Kappa Andromedae is a blue white star of apparent magnitude...
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    Rho Boötis (category Suspected variables)
    temperature of about 4,300 K. Rho Boötis is classified as a RS Canum Venaticorum variable. Koen and Eyer examined the Hipparcos data for this star, and...
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    having spots or different temperatures. This would make it an RS Canum Venaticorum variable. The period has since been refined to 59 days and this is now...
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    supergiants Luminous blue variable Gamma Cassiopeiae variable R Coronae Borealis variable Eruptive binary RS Canum Venaticorum variable Cataclysmic or explosive...
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    Sigma Geminorum (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    spectrum of only one of its components can be discerned. It is an RS Canum Venaticorum variable with a period of 19.6 days, matching the orbital period. The...
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    Gamma Leonis (category Suspected variables)
    variable. The American Association of Variable Star Observers mention that it is a RS Canum Venaticorum variable with a smaller range of 1.98 to 2.02....
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    AF Leporis (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    V.; et al. (2009). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)". VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally...
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    In astronomy, cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) are stars which irregularly increase in brightness by a large factor, then drop back down to a quiescent...
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    mechanism may be similar to that responsible for the activity of RS Canum Venaticorum variable stars, or the interaction between Jupiter and its moon Io. 55...
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    CG Cygni (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    (1991), "1991 V Photometry of CG Cyg and a Possible New Variable", Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, 3688: 1, Bibcode:1991IBVS.3688....1H Kozhevnikova...
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