Kruger 60
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Krüger 60 (DO Cephei) is a binary star system located Template:Convert from Earth, being one of nearest stars. It is made up of a pair of red dwarfs stars orbiting each other every 45 years.
DescriptionEdit
The larger, primary star is designated component A, while the secondary, smaller star is labeled component B. Component A has about 27% of the Sun's mass and 30% of the Sun's radius. Component B has about 18% of the Sun's mass and 22% of the Sun's radius.<ref name=Hillenbrand2004/><ref name=Hardegree-Ullman2023/>
In 1951, Peter van de Kamp and Sarah Lee Lippincott announced that component B is a flare star.<ref name="vandeKamp1951"/> It was given the variable star designation "DO Cephei".<ref name=White/> Flares lasting as long as one hour have been recorded.<ref name=Dal2010/>
This system is orbiting through the Milky Way at a distance from the core that varies from 7–9 kpc with an orbital eccentricity of 0.126–0.130.<ref name=García-Sánchez1/> The closest approach to the Sun will occur in about 88,600 years when this system will come within Template:Convert.<ref name=García-Sánchez2/>
Considering the orbit of the members of Krüger 60, detecting an exoplanet through radial velocity could prove difficult, as its orbit would be inclined only 13 degrees from our point of view, and create 1/5th as strong a radial velocity signal as an exoplanet orbiting edge-on from the point of view of the Solar System.Template:Citation needed
NameEdit
In 1890 Adalbert Krueger published a part of the AGK catalogue with stars with declination between +55 en +65. He noted which stars appeared to be double.<ref>https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1890ahgk.book.....K/abstract</ref> Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1894) observed 67 of these candidate double stars, among which number 60 from his list, which later was called Kruger 60 (star 13170 from the catalogue of Krueger).<ref>https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1894PLicO...2..145B</ref>
Origin of 2I/BorisovEdit
Krüger 60 was proposed as the origin of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov (formerly named C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)) in a preprint submitted to arXiv by Dybczyński, Królikowska, and Wysoczańska.<ref name=Arxiv-1909.10952/> These authors had from other work a list of stars and stellar systems that can potentially act as perturbers of the Oort cloud comets, and searched it for a past close proximity of 2I/Borisov at a very small relative velocity. While hampered by uncertainty about the orbit of 2I/Borisov and particularly its non-gravitational acceleration (due to cometary outgassing), they initially reached a conclusion that 1 Myr ago 2I/Borisov passed Krüger 60 at a small distance of 1.74 pc while having an extremely small relative velocity of 3.43 km/s. Perturbations of 2I/Borisov's incoming orbit altered the intersection distance with relatively small changes in the relative velocity. However, further study by the same authors presented in the revised version of the preprint instead ruled out the possibility of Krüger 60 as a home system for 2I/Borisov.<ref name=Arxiv-1909.10952/>