The system is composed of a blue - white giant with the stellar classification of B9III - IV and a visual magnitude of 5.33,
a white subgiant belonging to the stellar class A0IVMn with an apparent magnitude of 5.63, and a star with a magnitude of 8.5 separated from the second component by 37.7 arc seconds.
The primary component in the system is a spectroscopic binary with the stellar classification of B2 IV, matching the spectrum of a blue -
white subgiant star.
Not exact matches
Achernar is a blue -
white main sequence star of spectral and luminosity type B3 Vpe (Hiltner et al, 1969), that previously had been classed as bright as a
subgiant.