Alnair, ζ Cen, CD−46 8949, CPD−46 6560, HD 121263, HIP 68002, HR 5231, SAO 224538[10]
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Zeta Centauri, Latinized from ζ Centauri, is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It has the proper name Alnair/æˈnɛər/, from Arabic: نير بطن قنطورس, romanized: nayyir baṭan qanṭūris, lit. 'the bright (star) of the body of the centaur'.[11][12] With a combined apparent visual magnitude of +2.55,[2] it is one of the brighter members of the constellation. This system is close enough to the Earth that its distance can be measured directly using the parallax technique. This yields a value of roughly 382 light-years (117 parsecs), with a 1.6% margin of error.[1] It is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +6.5 km/s.[4]
In Chinese, 庫樓 (Kù Lóu), meaning Arsenal, refers to an asterism consisting of ζ Centauri, η Centauri, θ Centauri, 2 Centauri, HD 117440, ξ1 Centauri, γ Centauri, τ Centauri, D Centauri and σ Centauri.[13] Consequently, the Chinese name for ζ Centauri itself is 庫樓一 (Kù Lóu yī, English: the First Star of Arsenal.)[14]
ζ Cen is a double-lined spectroscopic binary system,[15] which indicates that the orbital motion was detected by shifts in the absorption lines of their combined spectra caused by the Doppler effect. The two stars orbit each other over a period of slightly more than eight days with an orbital eccentricity of about 0.5.[6] The estimated angular separation of the pair is 1.4 mas.[7]
At an estimated age of 40 million years,[3] the primary component of this system appears to be in the subgiant stage of its evolution with a stellar classification of B2.5 IV.[3] It is a large star with nearly 8[3] times the mass of the Sun and close to 6[8] times the Sun's radius. This star is rotating rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 235 km s−1.[9]
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