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κ2 Coronae Australis
Location of Kappa2 CrA (circled)
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
Constellation Corona Australis
Right ascension 18h 33m 23.13130s[1]
Declination −38° 43′ 33.5392″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.59±0.01[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type B9 Vnn[3]
B−V color index −0.06[4]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−15.0±7.4[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −2.911 mas/yr[1]
Dec.: −20.468 mas/yr[1]
Parallax (π)4.6115 ± 0.0747 mas[1]
Distance710 ± 10 ly
(217 ± 4 pc)
Details
Mass3.12+0.41
−0.37[6] M☉
Radius5.28±0.28[7] R☉
Luminosity460[8] L☉
Surface gravity (log g)3.58±0.07[6] cgs
Temperature12,600[9] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.10[10] dex
Other designations
κ2 CrA, 17 G. Coronae Australis[11], CD−38°12895, GC 25314, HD 170868, HIP 90968, HR 6953, SAO 210294, 210295, CCDM J18334-3843A, WDS J18334-3844A[12]
Database references
SIMBADdata

Kappa2 Coronae Australis (Kappa2 CrA), Latinized from κ2 Coronae Australis, is the primary of a probable binary system[13] located in the southern constellation Corona Australis. It is visible to the naked eye as a bluish-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.59.[2] The distance to this star is roughly 710 light years based on Gaia DR3 parallax measurements.[1] The radial velocity is poorly constrained, but the star appears to be moving closer with a radial velocity of around −15 km/s.[5] At its current distance, Kappa2 CrA's brightness is diminished by 0.45 magnitudes due to interstellar dust.[14]

This is an ordinary B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B9Vnn, with the nn meaning extremely nebulous absorption lines, usually due to rapid rotation.[3] It has 3.12 times the mass of the Sun[6] and a radius 5.28 times larger than the Sun,[7] which is large for stars of this type. It radiates 460 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere[8] at an effective temperature of 12,600 K.[9] The large radius combined with the high luminosity of the star may indicate that Kappa2 CrA is highly evolved.[citation needed]

Kappa2 CrA forms a binary star with Kappa1 Coronae Australis, also known as HR 6952.[15] Kappa1 is located 20.5" away along a position angle of 359°.[16] The two were once thought to be an optical pair due to the large difference in their parallaxes but are now considered to be physical based on Gaia measurements. The satellite places Kappa1 and Kappa2 around 700 light years away.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv:2208.00211. Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940. S2CID 244398875. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. ^ a b Høg, E.; Fabricius, C.; Makarov, V. V.; Urban, S.; Corbin, T.; Wycoff, G.; Bastian, U.; Schwekendiek, P.; Wicenec, A. (March 2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355: L27–L30. Bibcode:2000A&A...355L..27H. ISSN 0004-6361.
  3. ^ a b Abt, Helmut A.; Morrell, Nidia I. (1995). "The Relation between Rotational Velocities and Spectral Peculiarities among A-Type Stars". Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 99: 135. Bibcode:1995ApJS...99..135A. doi:10.1086/192182.
  4. ^ Corben, P. M. (April 1971). "Photoelectric Magnitudes and Colours for Bright Southern Stars". Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa. 30 (4): 37. Bibcode:1971MNSSA..30...37C. ISSN 0024-8266.
  5. ^ a b Kharchenko, N.V.; Scholz, R.-D.; Piskunov, A.E.; Röser, S.; Schilbach, E. (November 2007). "Astrophysical supplements to the ASCC-2.5: Ia. Radial velocities of ~55000 stars and mean radial velocities of 516 Galactic open clusters and associations". Astronomische Nachrichten. 328 (9): 889–896. arXiv:0705.0878. Bibcode:2007AN....328..889K. doi:10.1002/asna.200710776. eISSN 1521-3994. ISSN 0004-6337. S2CID 119323941.
  6. ^ a b c Stassun, Keivan G.; et al. (9 September 2019). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List". The Astronomical Journal. 158 (4): 138. arXiv:1905.10694. Bibcode:2019AJ....158..138S. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467. eISSN 1538-3881. hdl:1721.1/124721. S2CID 166227927.
  7. ^ a b Kervella, P.; Thévenin, F.; Di Folco, E.; Ségransan, D. (October 2004). "The angular sizes of dwarf stars and subgiants". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 426 (1): 297–307. arXiv:astro-ph/0404180. Bibcode:2004A&A...426..297K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20035930. eISSN 1432-0746. ISSN 0004-6361.
  8. ^ a b McDonald, I.; Zijlstra, A. A.; Boyer, M. L. (21 November 2012). "Fundamental parameters and infrared excesses of Hipparcos stars: Parameters and IR excesses from Hipparcos". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 427 (1): 343–357. arXiv:1208.2037. Bibcode:2012MNRAS.427..343M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21873.x. eISSN 1365-2966. ISSN 0035-8711.
  9. ^ a b Philip, A. G. D.; Egret, D. (May 1980). "An analysis of the Hauck-Mermillod catalogue of homogeneous four-color data. II". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 40: 199–205. Bibcode:1980A&AS...40..199P. ISSN 0365-0138.
  10. ^ Anders, F.; et al. (August 2019). "Photo-astrometric distances, extinctions, and astrophysical parameters for Gaia DR2 stars brighter than G = 18". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 628: A94. arXiv:1904.11302. Bibcode:2019A&A...628A..94A. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935765. eISSN 1432-0746. ISSN 0004-6361.
  11. ^ Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1878). "Uranometria Argentina : brillantez y posicion de las estrellas fijas, hasta la septima magnitud, comprendidas dentro de cien grados del polo austral : con atlas". Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino. 1. Bibcode:1879RNAO....1.....G.
  12. ^ "kap02 CrA". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  13. ^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (11 September 2008). "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 389 (2): 869–879. arXiv:0806.2878. Bibcode:2008MNRAS.389..869E. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x. eISSN 1365-2966. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 14878976.
  14. ^ Gontcharov, George A.; Mosenkov, Aleksandr V. (28 September 2017). "Verifying reddening and extinction for Gaia DR1 TGAS main sequence stars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472 (4): 3805–3820. arXiv:1709.01160. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.472.3805G. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2219. eISSN 1365-2966. ISSN 0035-8711.
  15. ^ Makarov, Valeri V. (2020). "Two-epoch Orbit Estimation for Wide Binaries Resolved in Hipparcos and Gaia". The Astronomical Journal. 160 (6): 284. arXiv:2010.03628. Bibcode:2020AJ....160..284M. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abbe1c. S2CID 222209002.
  16. ^ Mason, Brian D.; Wycoff, Gary L.; Hartkopf, William I.; Douglass, Geoffrey G.; Worley, Charles E. (December 2001). "The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog". The Astronomical Journal. 122 (6): 3466–3471. Bibcode:2001AJ....122.3466M. doi:10.1086/323920. ISSN 0004-6256.
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