A study of Kapteyn's star

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Aug 2005

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 438, Issue 3, August II 2005, pp.957-962

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars: Late-Type, Stars: General

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We present a review of the current knowledge of Kapteyn's Star (KS) - a nearby, low-metallicity M-dwarf, with an eccentric and retrograde Galactic orbit. A brief survey of its spectroscopic properties is provided, together with an analysis of its Galactic orbit in a Galaxy model that incorporates resonances. We propose that KS may have once belonged to a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that merged with the Galaxy, and whose present remnant, if it still exists, is a globular cluster similar to ω Cen.

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