Alpha Centauri
Star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus
Also known as Rigel Kent · Rigil Kentaurus · Toliman · Bungula · 2XMM J143933.0-605008 · α Cen
- Instance of
- Part of
- G-Cloud
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Sources- 1.“Our Local Galactic Neighborhood”interstellar.jpl.nasa.gov/interstellar/probe/introduction/neighborhood.html
- G-Cloud
Overview
All data
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- IPA transcription
- ˈalfa ʦɛnˈtaʊ̯ʀi language: German
- Catalog code
- IRAS 14359-6037 catalog: IRAS
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- SAO 252838 catalog: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
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- α Cen catalog: Bayer designation
- 1ES 1435-60.6 catalog: Einstein Slew Survey, Version No. 1
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- 1RXS J143940.4-605020 catalog: 1RXS
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- 2EUVE J1439-60.8 catalog: The second Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer source catalog
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- CCDM J14396-6050AB catalog: Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars
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- EUVE J1439-60.8 catalog: The first Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer source catalog
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- FK5 538 catalog: FK5
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- GC 19728 catalog: Boss General Catalogue
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- GCRV 8519 catalog: General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities
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- IDS 14328-6025 AB catalog: Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars
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- LPM 534 catalog: Luyten Proper-Motion catalogue
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- uvby98 100128620 catalog: uvbyβ Photoelectric Photometric Catalogue
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- WDS J14396-6050AB catalog: Washington Double Star Catalog
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- WDS J14403-6051AB catalog: Washington Double Star Catalog
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- Ci 20 875 catalog: Catalogue of proper motion stars
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- [TSA98] J143948.42-605021.66 catalog: Initial results of a comprehensive ultrasoft survey of the Einstein IPC database: source list and confirmation of the selection procedure
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- RX J1439.5-6050 catalog: X-ray survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud by ROSAT
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- PM 14362-6038 catalog: Catalogs of proper-motion stars. I. Stars brighter than visual magnitude 15 and with annual proper motion of 1" or more
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- IRAS 14359-6037 catalog: IRAS
- Color index
- 0.23 astronomical filter: U-B colour
- Eccentricity
- 0.516
- Distance from Earth
- 1.346 pc
- Parallax
- 742 milliarcsecond
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- 742 milliarcsecond
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- 742 milliarcsecond
- Absolute magnitude
- 4.385
- Radius
- 1.227 R☉
- Metallicity
- 0.25
- Radial velocity
- -25.1 kilometre per second
- Right ascension
- 219.8738 degree
- Declination
- -60.8322 degree
- Effective temperature
- 5,781 K
- Surface gravity
- 18,000 centimetre per square second
- Luminosity
- 1.519 solar luminosity
- Right ascension component of proper motion
- -3,608 milliarcsecond per year
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- -3,606 milliarcsecond per year
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- -3,608 milliarcsecond per year
- Declination component of proper motion
- 786 milliarcsecond per year
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- 705 milliarcsecond per year
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- 786 milliarcsecond per year
- Demonym
- Alpha Centaurian
On other databases
30 identifiers linking Alpha Centauri across the web's reference databases
- ARICNS01151
- Bing entity IDb30e6203-14ee-19c0-4ea9-32ae97f6c8bf
- Comic Vine ID4020-59907
- DBC author ID87097992616444
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Alpha-Centauri
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)4TGVvN
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)66172
- Fandom article IDspace:Alpha_Centauri
- FAST ID1239710
- Freebase ID/m/0vvc
- GND ID7544148-2
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDAlfa_Centauri
- Interlingual Index IDi84952
- J9U entity ID987007294758005171
- Larousse IDdivers/Toliman/180327
- Lex IDAlfa_Centauri
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)2780604493
- Namuwiki ID센타우루스자리 알파
- National Library of Brazil ID000070844
- NE.se IDalfa-centauri
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3967861
- Pixiv Encyclopedia IDアルファ・ケンタウリ
- Quora topic IDAlpha-Centauri-binary-star
- SIMBAD ID* alf Cen
- UVL group IDalphacentauri
- VIAF cluster ID138327546
- Vikidia article IDfr:Alpha_du_Centaure
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID09216650-n
- Yale LUX IDplace/f549ace9-fa46-4e04-b066-1b8c4e0781c0
- Yle topic ID18-164668