• Thumbnail for RS Canum Venaticorum
    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...
    21 KB (1,850 words) - 23:20, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for RS Canum Venaticorum variable
    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...
    7 KB (890 words) - 00:57, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Variable star
    vary by less than 0.5 magnitudes (70% change in luminosity). Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum (α2 CVn) variables are main-sequence stars of spectral class B8–A7...
    51 KB (6,578 words) - 02:05, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flare star
    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...
    15 KB (1,815 words) - 02:00, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capella
    Capella (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    Vega, which are also variable. The system has been classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable, a class of binary stars with active chromospheres that...
    70 KB (7,619 words) - 20:07, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for XX Trianguli
    XX Trianguli (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    along the constellation border with Andromeda. It is classified as a RS Canum Venaticorum variable and ranges in brightness from magnitude 8.1 down to 8.7...
    10 KB (933 words) - 08:13, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for HR 5110
    HR 5110 (redirect from BH Canum Venaticorum)
    HR 5110, also known as BH Canum Venaticorum, is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. It is visible to the naked eye with...
    7 KB (480 words) - 14:59, 3 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Canes Venatici
    Sun. RS Canum Venaticorum is the prototype of a special class of binary stars of chromospherically active and optically variable components. R Canum Venaticorum...
    23 KB (2,375 words) - 07:58, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gliese 268
    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...
    6 KB (450 words) - 15:01, 30 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lyra
    in 2009. Only slightly farther away is V478 Lyrae, an eclipsing RS Canum Venaticorum variable whose primary star shows active starspot activity. One of...
    68 KB (7,573 words) - 08:42, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eta Cassiopeiae
    Eta Cassiopeiae (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    K7 V U−B color index +0.02/1.03 B−V color index +0.58/1.39 Variable type RS CVn? Astrometry A Radial velocity (Rv) +10.0 ± 0.1 km/s Proper motion (μ)...
    18 KB (1,556 words) - 22:43, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 13 Ceti
    13 Ceti (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    It appears to have an active chromosphere and is classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable with a variable star designation of BU Cet. The star was...
    13 KB (891 words) - 11:02, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ursa Minor
    magnitude 4.22. 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...
    53 KB (5,861 words) - 03:29, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 36 Ophiuchi
    36 Ophiuchi (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    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 Early...
    13 KB (1,038 words) - 15:54, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for II Pegasi
    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...
    7 KB (505 words) - 15:45, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for CG Cygni
    CG Cygni (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    Xiao-Min; Xiang, Fu-Yuan; Lu, Ye (2012), "Orbital Period Investigation of the RS CVN-Type Binary CG Cygni", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan...
    7 KB (565 words) - 16:51, 11 December 2023
  • HD 98800 (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    is thought to be its rotation period and it is classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable, a dwarf star with an uneven surface brightness that changes...
    19 KB (1,780 words) - 04:04, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Omicron Draconis
    Omicron Draconis (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    but the secondary has been detected using interferometry. It is an RS Canum Venaticorum variable system with eclipses. The total amplitude of variation is...
    8 KB (589 words) - 08:41, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 93 Leonis
    93 Leonis (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    an orbit once every 71.69 days. The system is also known to be an RS Canum Venaticorum variable, due to its binarity. For that reason, it has been given...
    6 KB (379 words) - 23:53, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chi1 Orionis
    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...
    10 KB (790 words) - 13:58, 16 September 2024
  • Donald Penrod, "Doppler Imaging of spotted stars - Application to the RS Canum Venaticorum star HR 1099" in Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Symposium on...
    7 KB (1,011 words) - 22:30, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for IM Pegasi
    IM Pegasi (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    Berdyugina, S. V.; Ilyin, I.; Tuominen, I. (1999). "The long-period RS Canum Venaticorum binary IM Pegasi. I. Orbital and stellar parameters". Astronomy and...
    7 KB (578 words) - 14:11, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HR 1099
    HR 1099 (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    demonstrated that component A is a spectroscopic binary star system of the RS Canum Venaticorum variable class. Given its average magnitude of around 5.9, it is...
    28 KB (2,197 words) - 20:44, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for AF Leporis
    AF Leporis (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    uncertainty in the classification.) AF Leporis is classified as a RS Canum Venaticorum variable star, which means it has an active surface with large star...
    16 KB (1,405 words) - 03:46, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Black Moshannon Observatory
    P.; Ramsey, L. W. (March 1984). "Hydrogen-alpha observations of RS Canum Venaticorum stars. III - the eclipsing systems AR Lacertae and SZ PISCIUM". The...
    4 KB (341 words) - 00:22, 17 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pyxis
    around each other every 3.2 days. The system is classified as a RS Canum Venaticorum variable, a binary system with prominent starspot activity, and lies...
    35 KB (3,974 words) - 21:29, 14 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for SZ Piscium
    SZ Piscium (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    3.966 days. It is a detached Algol-type eclipsing binary of the RS Canum Venaticorum class with a subgiant component. (This means the pair have a close...
    22 KB (1,702 words) - 14:30, 14 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for DS Tucanae
    DS Tucanae (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    of 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...
    15 KB (1,417 words) - 21:26, 30 July 2024
  • Xi Ursae Majoris (category RS Canum Venaticorum variables)
    physical separation about 4,000 AU. ξ Ursae Majoris is classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable and its brightness varies by 0.01 magnitude. Component B...
    16 KB (1,372 words) - 03:32, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gamma Leonis
    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. In 1959, the star...
    14 KB (1,273 words) - 01:16, 17 October 2024