LP 816-60 is a single
red dwarf
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star of
spectral type
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M4, located in constellation
Capricornus
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at 18.33
light-year
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s from Earth.
[
The discovery name of this star is LP 816-60, which indicates that its discovery was published between 1963 and 1981 in ]University of Minnesota
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, Minneapolis
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.[Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects]
LP entry
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''. Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
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Mathematics
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. LP 816-60 is known at least from 1979, when it was included to Luyten's catalogue NLTT.
No massive planets were detected around LP 816-60 as of 2013.[ The star has a magnetic ]starspot
Starspots are stellar phenomena, so-named by analogy with sunspots.
Spots as small as sunspots have not been detected on other stars, as they would cause undetectably small fluctuations in brightness. The commonly observed starspots are in gene ...
cycle of 10.6 years,
References
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Capricornus
M-type main-sequence stars
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Ursa Major moving group
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