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DQ Tau

(young binary star system)

DQ Tau is a non-eclipsing double-line spectroscopic binary of young T-Tauri stars, each on the order of 0.65 solar masses, about 140 parsecs distant. They have a highly-eccentric orbit that is just above 8 radii of either star at its smallest, with an orbital period of 15 days. The star system has been studied for X-ray emissions attributed to the orbit's effect on their colliding magnetospheres.


(star,binary star,magnetosphere,eccentricity,variable star,PMS star,TTS)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001IAUS..200..415S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...730....6G/abstract
https://webdisks.jpl.nasa.gov/show.php?id=35&name=DQ%20Tau
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=DQ%20Tau
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...928...81F/abstract
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
~0140pc460lyDQ Tau
Coordinates:DQ Tau
J044653.06+170000.1

Referenced by pages:
variable star
variable star designation

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