TY Coronae Borealis


TY Coronae Borealis, also known as Ross 808, is a white dwarf in the constellation Corona Borealis. It is 107 light-years distant from Earth, and has a dim apparent magnitude of 14.4.
It is a pulsating white dwarf of the DAV type. The variation in the blue band is of 0.14 magnitudes, over a period of 15 minutes. It was confirmed as a variable star in 1976, and now has the variable-star designation TY Coronae Borealis. Being of this variable class, it has been a target for asteroseismic analyses, in attempt to derive its physical properties such as mass, radius and gravity. However, it seems estimations of the stellar mass derived for this star using asteroseismology had been overestimated.
TY Coronae Borealis has around 0.6 times the mass of the Sun and a tiny diameter of only 1.3% that of the Sun. It is a dim star, with 0.2% of the Sun's luminosity. It has an effective temperature of about 11,000 K, have taken 450 million years to cool to its temperature. This is also its age as a white dwarf.