SZ Crateris is classified as a marginal BY Draconis variable, and has an optical variability cycle of 11.58 days. (The star causing the variability is unspecified.)[15] Compared to the Sun, SZ Crateris has a slightly higher proportion of elements other than hydrogen and helium.[10] Based upon gyrochronology, the estimated age of this star is under 200 million years.[12]
The SZ Crateris system is a member of the Ursa Major moving group of stars that have similar motions through space.[10] The space velocity components of this system are U = +13.86 ± 0.37, V = –3.51 ± 1.97 and W = +1.65 ± 1.53 km/s.[16] It is on an orbit through the Milky Way that has an orbital eccentricity of 0.092, which will bring it as close as 26.06 kly (7.99 kpc) to the galactic core, and as distant as 31.31 kly (9.60 kpc). The inclination of the orbit carries the system as much as 0.352 kly (0.108 kpc) from the plane of the galactic disk.[17]
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^ abCorben, P. M.; Carter, B. S.; Banfield, R. M.; Harvey, G. M. (1972). "U, B, V photometry of 500 southern stars". Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa. 31: 7–22. Bibcode:1972MNSSA..31....8C.
^ abcPoveda, A.; Herrera, M. A.; Allen, C.; Cordero, G.; Lavalley, C. (1994). "Statistical studies of visual double and multiple stars. II. A catalogue of nearby wide binary and multiple systems". Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica. 28: 43. Bibcode:1994RMxAA..28...43P.
^ abcdePaulson, Diane B.; Yelda, Sylvana; Allen, Peter R.; Kilkenny, David; Liebert, James; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Fraser, Oliver J.; Covey, Kevin R.; Lowrance, Patrick; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Burgasser, Adam J. (2006). "Differential Radial Velocities and Stellar Parameters of Nearby Young Stars". The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 118 (843): 706–715. arXiv:astro-ph/0605433. Bibcode:2006PASP..118..706P. doi:10.1086/504115. S2CID16194615.
^ abcMorales, J. C.; Ribas, I.; Jordi, C.; Kilkenny, David; Liebert, James; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Fraser, Oliver J.; Covey, Kevin R.; Lowrance, Patrick; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Burgasser, Adam J. (2008). "The effect of activity on stellar temperatures and radii". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 478 (2): 507. arXiv:0711.3523. Bibcode:2008A&A...478..507M. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078324. S2CID16238033.
^Allen, C.; Herrera, M. A. (1998). "The Galactic Orbits of Nearby UV Ceti Stars". Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica. 34: 37. Bibcode:1998RMxAA..34...37A.