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    Beta Doradus, Latinized from β Doradus, is the second brightest star in the southern constellation of Dorado. It is a Classical Cepheid variable, with...
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    Dorado (redirect from Doradus)
    One thousand and forty light-years from Earth, Beta Doradus has a period of 9 days and 20 hours. R Doradus is one of the many variable stars in Dorado....
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  • star system 3.63 3.55 Omicron Velorum Star 3.63 Beta Delphini Binary star system 3.82 3.5 Beta Doradus Star 3.87 3.480 Eta Aquilae Triple star system 3...
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    pulsation constant. Classical Cepheids include: Eta Aquilae, Zeta Geminorum, Beta Doradus, RT Aurigae, Polaris, as well as Delta Cephei. Type II Cepheids include:...
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  • Melinda M.; Booth, Andrew J. (1998-08-01). "The bright southern Cepheid beta Doradus: the radial velocity curve, distance and size". Monthly Notices of the...
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    the tropics (near the ecliptic and thus zodiac) and in the far south Beta Doradus. The closest class member is the North Star (Polaris) whose distance...
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    a period of 7.177 days. Along with Delta Cephei, Zeta Geminorum and Beta Doradus, it is one of the most prominent naked eye Cepheids; that is, both the...
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    Beta Columbae passed within 2 light years of Beta Pictoris about 110,000 years ago, but a larger perturbation would have been caused by Zeta Doradus,...
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    Australis (Sigma Octantis). From around 1700 BC until just after 300 AD, Kochab (Beta Ursae Minoris) and Pherkad (Gamma Ursae Minoris) were twin northern pole...
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  • and moving groups AB Doradus moving group TW Hydrae association Mamajek, Eric E.; Bell, Cameron P. M. (2014). "On the age of the beta Pictoris moving group"...
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    blocking and is believed to drive pulsations in the γ {\displaystyle \gamma } Doradus variables. Observations from the Kepler satellite revealed eccentric binary...
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    HR 8799 (category Gamma Doradus variables)
    whose orbital motion was confirmed by direct imaging. The star is a Gamma Doradus variable: its luminosity changes because of non-radial pulsations of its...
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    in the constellation of Cygnus is the prototype of this class. Gamma Doradus (γ Dor) variables are non-radially pulsating main-sequence stars of spectral...
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    nearby stellar associations and moving groups β Pictoris moving group AB Doradus moving group King, Jeremy R.; et al. (April 2003), "Stellar Kinematic Groups...
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  • "SDSS J111010.01+011613.1: A New Planetary-mass T Dwarf Member of the AB Doradus Moving Group". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 808 (1): L20. arXiv:1506...
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    1997 when a group of astronomers measured R Doradus with a diameter of 57.0±0.5 mas, although R Doradus, being much closer to Earth at about 200 ly,...
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    temperatures are the Beta Cephei and PV Telescopii variables. Right at the edge of the instability strip near the main sequence are Gamma Doradus variables. The...
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    photometric distance of 132 pc based on stars in the AB Doradus, Tucana-Horologium and Beta Pictoris moving groups, which are all similar in age and...
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    which may contain tens of thousands of stars. Examples include the 30 Doradus region in the Large Magellanic Cloud and NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy...
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  • 175 ± 3 2 A5V + A5V +4.949 Beta Gruis (Tiaki) 177 ± 4 1 M4.5 III 2.146 Alphard (Alpha Hydrae) 177 ± 8 1 K3IIIa +2.00 R Doradus 178 ± 10 1 M8 III 4.78 –...
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    suspected of being a variable star. Lacaille mistakenly named this star Mu Doradus, but had recorded its Right Ascension one hour too low. Lacaille named...
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    the Sun. Based on the estimated age and motion, it is a member of the AB Doradus moving group that share a common motion through space. This group has an...
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    stars which orbit each other every 39.88 days. The primary is a Gamma Doradus variable, pulsating over a period of 1.45 days. The fainter star is not...
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    be around 4 million L☉. A year later, it was classified as a possible S Doradus variable. A 1998 paper considers it an active LBV, an Alpha Cygni variable...
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    Michelson, E. (1981). "The near ultraviolet stellar spectra of alpha Lyrae and beta Orionis". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 197: 57–74....
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    extinction in the region associated with the LMC2 supershell (near the 30 Doradus starbursting region) than seen elsewhere in the LMC and in the Milky Way...
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    a near-infrared J band magnitude of −2.2, only Betelgeuse (−2.9) and R Doradus (−2.6) are brighter. The lower output in visible light is due to a lower...
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    it is either a spectroscopic binary or (more likely) a pulsating Gamma Doradus-type variable. If the latter is the case, it is estimated to be 1.39 times...
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  • 1991)". VizieR Online Data Catalog: V/50. Bibcode:1995yCat.5050....0H. "beta Cas". SIMBAD. Retrieved December 22, 2023. Che, X.; Monnier, J. D.; Zhao...
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    moving group) Hyades Stream IC 2391 supercluster Beta Pictoris moving group Castor moving group AB Doradus moving group Zeta Herculis moving group Alpha...
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