G Centauri

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G Centauri
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Centaurus
Right ascension 12h 26m 31.75955s [1]
Declination −51° 27 02.2899 [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)4.82 [2]
Characteristics
Spectral type B3V(n) [3]
B−V color index −0.141±0.002 [2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+5.0±4.2 [2]  km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: −30.66 [1]   mas/yr
Dec.: −10.13 [1]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)7.28 ± 0.24  mas [1]
Distance 450 ± 10  ly
(137 ± 5  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)−0.87 [2]
Details
Mass 6.2±0.1 [4]   M
Radius 3.42 [5]   R
Luminosity 483.06 [2]   L
Temperature 13,732 [6]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.38±0.06 [7]   dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)298±12 [8]  km/s
Age 15.8±0.2 [4]   Myr
Other designations
G Cen, CD−50°6975, GC  16954, HD  108257, HIP  60710, HR  4732, SAO  239948, CCDM J12265-5127 [9]
Database references
SIMBAD data

G Centauri is a single [10] star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.82. This object is located approximately 450 light years from the Sun, based on parallax. [1] It is a member of the Lower Centaurus–Crux group of the Scorpius–Centaurus association, with the former having an age of about 17 million years. [11]

This object is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B3V(n), [3] where the 'n' indicates "nebulous" (broad) lines due to rapid rotation. It is around 16 [4]  million years old with a projected rotational velocity of up to 298 km/s. [8] The star has six [4] times the mass of the Sun and 3.4 [5] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 483 [2] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 13,732 K. [6] An infrared excess indicates a circumstellar disk of dust with a mean temperature of 50 K is orbiting the star at a separation of 717.8  AU . [5]

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