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V1054 Ophiuchi

V1054 Ophiuchi, together with the star Gliese 643, is a nearby quintuple star system, located in the constellation Ophiuchus at a distance of 21.2 light-years. It consists of five stars, all of which are red dwarfs. The alternative designation of Wolf 630 forms the namesake of a moving group of stars that share a similar motion through space.

Hierarchy of orbits in the system

V1054 Ophiuchi/Gliese 643 is the nearest quintuple star system; the next nearest star systems with at least five stars are Xi Ursae Majoris (quintuple, including a brown dwarf) at 28.5 light-years, Castor (sextuple) at 49.2 light-years, and GJ 2069 (quintuple) at 54.3 light-years. V1054 Ophiuchi and Xi Ursae Majoris are the only two quintuple star systems within 10 parsecs.

The system consists of three widely separated parts:

The brightest and most massive of these five stars is V1054 Ophiuchi A. The close binary subsystem V1054 Ophiuchi B is more massive than V1054 Ophiuchi A, however, its total visual magnitude is 0.1 mag fainter than V1054 Ophiuchi A's visual magnitude.

The total apparent magnitude of the V1054 Ophiuchi A-Bab triple subsystem is 9.02.

Despite V1054 Ophiuchi/Gliese 643 consisting of low-mass stars, the system's total mass, due to the large number of components, exceeds the Solar mass, about 1.35 M.

Currently, the most accurate distance estimate of V1054 Ophiuchi/Gliese 643 is a trigonometric parallax of Gliese 643 from Gaia DR3: 153.8754±0.0474 mas, corresponding to a distance of 6.499±0.002 pc, or 21.196±0.007 ly.

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