| Class Name | Abbr. | Class Path | Descendents | Sources* |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active Galactic Nuclei
Related to gas inflow into a central massive black hole
|
AGN | Nonstellar:GalNuclei | 6 | 55 | |
| Algol (Beta Persei)
eclipsing
detached or semidetached
|
alg | vs:msv:b | 0 | 173 | |
| Alpha Cygni | ac | vs:puls | 0 | 0 | |
| Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum
tag with magnetic
|
aii | vs:rot | 0 | 0 | |
| AM Canum Venaticorum
AM CVn stars are blue, variable objects. After the first was discovered in 1967, Bohdan Paczynski proposed that such a s...
|
amcvn | vs:cv:nov:n-l | 0 | 0 | |
| AM Herculis (True Polar)
In polars, the white dwarf magnetic field is so strong that:
The white dwarf is spin-synchronized with the binary (Ps...
|
am | vs:cv:nov:p | 0 | 5 | |
| Anomolous Cepheid | ca | vs:puls:c | 0 | 6 | |
| Asteroid
Small rocky solar system bodies in orbit directly around the sun.
|
ast | moving | 0 | 93 | |
| Be Star
A B star that shows emission lines of hydrogen, typically with variable and complex line profiles, of which Achernar is...
|
be | vs:ev:gc | 1 | 46 | |
| Beta Cephei
Beta Cephei variables are variable stars which exhibit variations in their brightness due to pulsations of the stars' su...
|
bc | vs:puls | 0 | 41 | |
| Beta Lyrae
Merge with W UMa? Eclipsing
|
bly | vs:msv:b | 0 | 153 | |
| Binary | b | vs:msv | 26 | 53 | |
| BL Lac
This is a type of AGN which is highly variable in its optical properties. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_Lac_object...
|
BL-Lac | Nonstellar:GalNuclei:AGN:BLZ | 0 | 46 | |
| Blazar | BLZ | Nonstellar:GalNuclei:AGN | 3 | 24 | |
| BY Draconis | by | vs:rot | 0 | 0 | |
| Cataclysmic Variable
These are variable stars showing outbursts caused by thermonuclear burst processes in their surface layers (novae) or de...
|
cv | vs | 44 | 190 | |
| Cepheid Variable | c | vs:puls | 4 | 324 | |
| Chemically Peculiar Stars | cp | vs | 0 | 52 | |
| Classical Cepheid
DCEP
|
dc | vs:puls:c | 1 | 698 | |
| Classical Novae
Classical novae (CN) are a class of nova and cataclysmic variable that have only a single observed eruption. Typical bri...
|
cn | vs:cv:nov | 0 | 1 | |
| Classical T Tauri
T Tauri stars are pre-main sequence stars – the youngest visible F, G, K, M spectral type stars (<2 Solar mass). Their...
|
ttc | vs:ev:ov:tt | 0 | 11 | |
| Comet
Small icy Solar system body on a highly eccentric orbit which brings it near the sun.
|
comet | moving | 0 | 3 | |
| Core Collapse Supernovae
Core collapse supernovae are the spectacular explosions that mark the violent deaths of massive stars. These events are...
|
cc | vs:cv:sne | 9 | 0 | |
| Dark Matter Anniliation Event | DrkMatterA | Nonstellar | 0 | 0 | |
| Delta Scuti | ds | vs:puls | 1 | 122 | |