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Pi Cephei (π Cephei) is a trinary star located in the constellation Cepheus.[6] With a combined apparent magnitude of about 4.4,[2] the system is faintly visible to the naked eye. The inner pair of stars orbits in 1.5 years while the outer companion completes one orbit in about 160 years.[6]

Pi Cephei was found to have a visual companion star by Otto Wilhelm von Struve in 1843.[6] That the primary is itself a spectroscopic binary was first noticed by William Wallace Campbell in 1901 using photographic plates taken at Lick Observatory.[10]

References

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  2. ^ a b Hauck, B.; Mermilliod, M. (1998). "Uvbybeta photoelectric photometric catalogue". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement. 129 (3): 431–433. Bibcode:1998A&AS..129..431H. doi:10.1051/aas:1998195.Vizier catalog entry
  3. ^ Høg, E.; Fabricius, C.; Makarov, V. V.; Urban, S.; Corbin, T.; Wycoff, G.; Bastian, U.; Schwekendiek, P.; Wicenec, A. (2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355: L27. Bibcode:2000A&A...355L..27H.
  4. ^ Fabricius, C.; Høg, E.; Makarov, V. V.; Mason, B. D.; Wycoff, G. L.; Urban, S. E. (2002). "The Tycho double star catalogue". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 384: 180–189. Bibcode:2002A&A...384..180F. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20011822.
  5. ^ a b c Scarfe, C. D.; et al. (1983). "Revised orbits for 105 Herculis and Pi Cephei A and a model for the Pi Cephei system". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 203: 103–116. Bibcode:1983MNRAS.203..103S. doi:10.1093/mnras/203.1.103.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i Gatewood, George; et al. (2001). "Hipparcos and MAP Studies of the Triple Star π Cephei". The Astrophysical Journal. 549 (2): 1145–1150. Bibcode:2001ApJ...549.1145G. doi:10.1086/319458.
  7. ^ "Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars". United States Naval Observatory. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d Feuillet, Diane K.; Bovy, Jo; Holtzman, Jon; Girardi, Léo; MacDonald, Nick; Majewski, Steven R.; Nidever, David L. (2016). "Determining Ages of APOGEE Giants with Known Distances". The Astrophysical Journal. 817 (1): 40. arXiv:1511.04088. Bibcode:2016ApJ...817...40F. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/817/1/40. S2CID 118675933.
  9. ^ "* pi. Cep". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  10. ^ Campbell, William Wallace (1901). "Some recent results secured with the Mills spectrograph". Lick Observatory Bulletin. 1 (4): 22–25. Bibcode:1901LicOB...1...22C. doi:10.5479/ADS/bib/1901LicOB.1.22C.
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