This is the optically brightest Herbig star known, making it a useful object for investigation.[5]Delta scuti-like pulsations have been detected with frequencies of 33.29 and 36.61 cycles per day.[6] It is an X-ray source with a luminosity of 2.69×1030erg·sec−1, which may originate in a hot corona.[8] DX Cha displays an ultraviolet excess, which indicates the star is still accreting matter at a rate of ≈ 10−8M☉·yr−1. This inflow is generating a pair of jets emerging from the poles of the star. The circumstellar disk is being viewed from nearly edge on.[5]
Infrared observations in 1996 showed evidence of an infrared source located at an angular separation of 1″,[8] now designated component B. In 2003, optical observations combined with the Chandra X-ray Observatory indicated that five low mass, pre-main sequence objects lie within 5″, equivalent to a projected distance of 1,500 AU from the primary, component A.[18] At least two of these are T Tauri stars.[5] It is uncertain whether all of the nearby companions form a gravitationally bound system with the primary.[11] The close A/B pair display radial velocity variation that indicate this is a double-lined spectroscopic binary with a K-type secondary.[6]
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