Star in the constellation Cygnus
2 Cygni is a blue-white hued star in the northern constellation of Cygnus , located a few degrees from Albireo . It is a probable astrometric binary ;[ 10] the visible component can be viewed with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 4.976.[ 2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 3.6 mas ,[ 1] it is located roughly 910 light years from Earth. It has a peculiar velocity of 23 km/s and may be a runaway star [ 5] system.
The stellar classification of the primary is B3 IV,[ 3] matching a B-type subgiant star . It has seven[ 5] times the mass of the Sun and about 5.6[ 6] times the Sun's radius . The star is 37[ 5] million years old with a high rate of spin; it has a projected rotational velocity of 137 km/s.[ 7] It is radiating 3,354[ 2] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 16,479 K.[ 7]
In 2024, imaging detected a candidate companion star at an angular separation of 70 mas . It appears to be a main sequence star with an estimated mass of 5.90± 0.18 M ☉ .[ 11]
References
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^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 389 (2): 869– 879, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .
^ Crepp, Justin R.; et al. (December 2024), Resolving the Young 2 Cygni Run-away Star into a Binary using iLocater , arXiv :2412.06982 , Bibcode :2024arXiv241206982C , doi :10.48550/arXiv.2412.06982 .