![]() A visual band light curve for S Coronae Australis, adapted from Mundt (1979). [1] The error bar shown on the left-most point applies to all points. | |
Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS) | |
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Constellation | Corona Australis |
Right ascension | 19h 01m 08.59709s [2] |
Declination | −36° 57′ 19.8950″ [2] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 10.49 - 13.20 [3] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | G0Ve + K0Ve [4] |
Variable type | T Tau [3] |
Astrometry | |
A | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | 0.0 [5] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: +7.054 [6] mas/yr Dec.: −26.511 [6] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 6.2291±0.0683 mas [6] |
Distance | 524 ± 6 ly (161 ± 2 pc) |
B | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | +6.0 [7] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: +2.477 [8] mas/yr Dec.: −28.079 [8] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 6.7857 ± 0.0745 mas [8] |
Distance | 481 ± 5 ly (147 ± 2 pc) |
Details | |
A | |
Mass | 0.8 [9] M☉ |
Radius | 2.3 [9] R☉ |
Luminosity | 1.7 [9] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 3.6 [10] cgs |
Temperature | 4,300 [11] K |
Rotation | 7.3 [9] days |
Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 10 [10] km/s |
B | |
Mass | 0.6 [11] M☉ |
Luminosity | 0.76 [11] L☉ |
Temperature | 3,800 [11] K |
Other designations | |
S CrA, S Coronae Australis, HH 82 | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
S Coronae Australis (S CrA), is a young binary star system estimated to be around 2 million years old located in the constellation Corona Australis. It is composed of a G-type main sequence star that is about as luminous as and just over twice as massive as the Sun, and a smaller K-type main sequence star that has around 50-60% of the Sun's luminosity and 1.3 times its mass. Both stars are T Tauri stars and both show evidence of having circumstellar disks. The system is around 140 parsecs distant. [4]
Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt discovered that the star is a variable star, in 1866. It appeared with its variable star designation in Annie Jump Cannon's 1907 work Second Catalogue of Variable Stars. [12]