Beta Hydrae, Latinized from β Hydrae, is a double star in the equatorial constellation of Hydra.[14] Historically, Beta Hydrae was designated 28 Crateris, but the latter fell out of use when the IAU defined the permanent constellation boundaries in 1930.[15] The system is faintly visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude that ranges around 4.29.[3] It is located at a distance of approximately 310 light years from the Sun based on parallax.
The double nature of this system was first reported by English astronomer John Herschel in 1834.[16] The brighter primary, designated component A, has an average visual magnitude of 4.67, while the secondary, component B, is of magnitude 5.47. As of 2002, the secondary is located at an angular separation of 0.65 arcseconds from the primary, along a position angle of 28.5°.[4]
The brighter component is an α2 Canum Venaticorum variable that changes in brightness with a period of 2.344 days and an amplitude of 0.04 in visual magnitude.[8] It is a magnetic chemically-peculiar star[17] with an average quadratic field strength of (−206±68)×10−4 T.[12] The star is around 178 million years old[11] with 3.4[9] times the mass of the Sun and 3.9[10] times the Sun's radius. On average, it is radiating 257[11] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 10,980 K.[10]
In 1972, M. R. Molnar found a stellar classification of B9IIIp Si for β Hydrae A, showing an abundance anomaly for silicon.[5] R. F. Garrison and R. O. Gray assigned it a class of kB8hB8HeA0VSi in 1994.[6] This notation indicates the Calcium K line matches a star of class B8, the hydrogen lines also match a B8 spectrum, while the helium lines match an A-type main-sequence star of class A0V.[18] They noted that the hydrogen lines have "curious rounded profiles".[6] Later studies list abundance anomalies of silicon, chromium, and strontium.[19]
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BetaHydrae, Latinized from β Hydrae, is a double star in the equatorial constellation of Hydra. Historically, BetaHydrae was designated 28 Crateris,...
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". Monthly...
(of Hydra), which included the stars from β Crateris westward through κ Hydrae. According to the catalogue of stars in the Technical Memorandum 33-507...
days. The shortest-known period is 0.29 days (QY Hydrae); the longest is 198.5 days (W Crucis). In beta Lyrae systems with periods longer than 100 days...
asterism consisting of η Hydrae, δ Hydra, σ Hydrae, ρ Hydrae, ε Hydrae, ζ Hydrae, ω Hydrae and θ Hydrae Consequently, η Hydrae itself is known as 柳宿三 (Liǔ...
Zeta Hydrae Star 3.11 3.05 Eta Sagittarii Binary star system 3.11 Alpha Indi Star 3.11 Nu Hydrae Star 3.11 Kappa Centauri Binary star system 3.12 Beta Columbae...
Kellogg, Kendra (11 April 2016). "The Nearest Isolated Member of the TW Hydrae Association is a Giant Planet Analog". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 821...
star of one of the smallest exoplanets. NN Serpentis white dwarf 14,679.5 Beta Crateris B 18,800 Feige 55 19,450 Central star of the Dumbbell Nebula 38...
stars are meant to be placed (i.e. as found on a celestial globe). Thus Beta Crucis appears to the right of the constellation and Delta Crucis to the...
Hydrae, Eta Crateris, Delta Crateris, Iota Crateris, Kappa Crateris, Epsilon Crateris, HD 95808, HD 93833, Theta Crateris, HD 102574, HD 100219, Beta...
directly imaged protoplanetary disks, such as TW Hydrae or directly imaged exoplanets, such as Beta Pictoris b or GU Psc b. A stellar stream is an association...
النِّطَاق Zeta Orionis Alphard al-Fard the Solitary one الفرد الفَرْد Alpha Hydrae Alphecca (Nayyir) al-Fakkah (the Bright one of) the Broken (Ring) نير الفكة...
Kirch, then R Hydrae in 1704 by G. D. Maraldi. By 1786, ten variable stars were known. John Goodricke himself discovered Delta Cephei and Beta Lyrae. Since...
complex. The structure of the magnetopause depends upon the Mach number and beta of the plasma, as well as the magnetic field. The magnetopause changes size...
signature, this object was determined to belong to the ~8-million-year-old TW Hydrae association, and the mass of the secondary was determined to be 8 ± 2 MJ...
SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2010-06-21. "Beta Ceti". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2010-06-21...
Model-Theoretic Approach to Ordinal Analysis" (1997). M. Rathjen, W. Carnielli, "Hydrae and subsystems of arithmetic" (1991) Jeroen Van der Meeren; Rathjen, Michael;...
which is essential for the colonization of the ectodermal mucus layer of Hydrae. Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic, Gram-positive bacteria that...
Song, B. Zuckerman; Bessell, M. S. (December 2003). "New Members of the TW Hydrae Association, β Pictoris Moving Group, and Tucana/Horologium Association"...
Christopher J. (2000-08-01). "WFPC2 Images of a Face-on Disk Surrounding TW Hydrae". The Astrophysical Journal. 538 (2): 793–800. Bibcode:2000ApJ...538..793K...
formation and wind acceleration around the aluminum oxide-rich AGB star W Hydrae". Science Advances. 3 (11): id.eaao2149. Bibcode:2017SciA....3O2149T. doi:10...
can be less than an hour (for AM CVn stars), or a few days (components of Beta Lyrae), but also hundreds of thousands of years (Proxima Centauri around...
time TTS – (celestial object) T-Tauri star TWA – (celestial object) TW Hydrae Association TYC – (catalog) Tycho, a catalog that was the predecessor of...