Color–magnitude diagrams of the five late-type dwarf companions of CenA, ordered by (increasing) luminosity. The main features visible in all of the diagrams are the blue plume (main sequence and blue helium-burning stars, very sparsely populated for HIPASS J1348-37, KK196, and ESO384-16), the red supergiant phase (or red helium-burning stars, significant only for KK182), the upper red giant branch and the luminous asymptotic giant branch (see text for details). On the left side of each diagram, representative 1σ photometric errorbars (as derived from artificial star tests) are shown.