KIC 11026764, nicknamed "Gemma" by Li ''et al.'',
is a
G-type main sequence
In astronomy, the main sequence is a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness. These color-magnitude plots are known as Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams after their co-developers, Ejnar Her ...
star
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whose characteristics have been extensively measured by the
''Kepler'' spacecraft because of its similarity to the Sun. Its diameter is 2.18 times the Sun and is aged at 5.94 billion years, slightly older than the Sun.
The star exhibits a weak quasi-periodic pulsations with frequency around 0.0009 Hz.
References
Cygnus (constellation)
G-type main-sequence stars
BD+48 2882
J19212465+4830532
Kepler Input Catalog
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