Details on Acronym: VCA | |
| VCA | (Volans-Carina Association) |
| Write: | <<VCA NNN>> |
| N: | about 19 |
| Object: | * in Assoc. (SIMBAD class: Star) |
| Note: | This acronym describes members of the Volans-Carina association (J. Gagne, J. K. Faherty & E. E. Mamajek et al. 2018, in prep), previously designated as group 30 in Oh et al. 2017 (AJ....153..257O) and Faherty et al. 2018 (ApJ, in press; 2018arXiv180409058F). This is a young association of stars with 19 confirmed members and 46 additional high probability candidates (no VCA designations are assigned for those yet until they are confirmed with full 6D kinematics). Its distance is approx. 85pc and its age is approx. 90 Myr. |
| in source: | [OPH2017] 30 = NAME Volans-Carina Association |
| Ref: | =arXiv:1808.0442 |
| Auth.: | Jonathan Gagne Universite de Montreal |
| Origin | of the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5 |