10 Canis Majoris

Star in the constellation Canis Major 250px A light curve for FT Canis Majoris from Hipparcos data, adapted from Lefèvre et al. (2009) J2000 Canis Major 06 44 28.46710 −31 04 13.8923 5.13–5.44 B2 V or B2 IIIe −0.127 0.005 Be +34.0 4.2 −3.286 +4.201 1.6454 0.0722 19.2 0.1 10.0 44463 35336 19689 commas 25350 1030 commas 3.76 0.17 205 5 2.63 d 8.2 0.1 FT Canis Majoris 10 CMa −30°3484 48917 32292 2492 197149 8827 06445-3104 J06445-3104 10+CMa 10 Canis Majoris is a single variable star in the southern constellation of Canis Major, located roughly 1,980 light years away from the Sun. It has the variable star designation FT Canis Majoris; 10 Canis Majoris is the Flamsteed designation. This body is visible to the naked eye as a faint, 5th-magnitude blue-white hued star. It is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +34 km/s. This is a massive Be star with a stellar classification of B2 V, matching a B-type main-sequence star. Hiltner et al. (1969) found a giant class of B2 IIIe, which is still in use with some studies. The star is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 205 km/s and a rotational period of 2.63 days. This is giving it an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is 5% larger than the polar radius. The axis of rotation is inclined by an angle of 45° to the line of sight from the Earth. In 1968, Alejandro Feinstein announced that the star is variable, based on observations from 1963-1965. It was given its variable star designation in 1973. Samus et al. (2017) classify it as a Be-type variable star that ranges from a peak visual magnitude of 5.13 down to 5.44 with a rotationally-modulated period of 2.63 days. 10 Canis Majoris is 8.2 million years old with 19.2 times the mass of the Sun and 10 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating around 44,000 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 25,000 K. 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