Beta Cephei variables, also known as Beta Canis Majoris stars, are variable stars that exhibit small rapid variations in their brightness due to pulsations...

the Sun. It is the prototype of the Beta Cephei variable stars. It consists of a binary pair (designated Beta Cephei A) together with a third companion...

1786, ten variable stars were known. John Goodricke himself discovered Delta Cephei and Beta Lyrae. Since 1850, the number of known variable stars has...

detection of pulsations, the Aa component has been classified as a β Cephei variable. Beta Centauri is well known in the Southern Hemisphere as the inner of...

of its correct position. Beta Canis Majoris was called Oupo by the people of the Tuamotus. Mirzam is a Beta Cephei variable that varies in apparent magnitude...

to be high-order gravity modes excited by the kappa mechanism. Beta Cephei variables are slightly hotter (and thus more massive), also have modes excited...

separated by their spectra. The primary is a blue giant and a variable star of the Beta Cephei type. Spica, along with Arcturus and Denebola—or Regulus, depending...

luminosity is varying in a periodic manner similar to that of a Beta Cephei variable. This periodicity has a dozen or more frequencies ranging between...

/ælˈnaɪjæt/, the traditional name for the entire star system) and a Beta Cephei variable) and Aa2; a third component (designated Sigma Scorpii Ab) at 0.4...

(Alpha Cephei), with an apparent magnitude of 2.5. Delta Cephei is the prototype of an important class of star known as a Cepheid variable. RW Cephei, an...

B-type star. Alpha Muscae appears to be a Beta Cephei variable star. Telting and colleagues report it as a Beta Cephei with a high degree of confidence as they...

(January 1998), "Evidence for binarity and multiperiodicity in the beta Cephei star beta Crucis", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 329: 137–146, Bibcode:1998A&A...

atlas. Flanking Sirius are Beta and Gamma Canis Majoris. Also called Mirzam or Murzim, Beta is a blue-white Beta Cephei variable star of magnitude 2.0, which...

stars. Markab has an apparent magnitude of 2.48, while Algenib is a Beta Cephei variable that varies between magnitudes 2.82 and 2.86 every 3 hours 38 minutes...

B1.5 III that is 460 ± 10 light-years distant from Earth. It is a Beta Cephei variable, pulsating in brightness by 0.03 of a magnitude every 7 hours and...

V-band. Also a Beta Cephei variable Also an Algol variable Also a shell star Samus', N. N; et al. (2017). "General catalogue of variable stars". Astronomy...

B-type stars and a pre-main-sequence star. The primary star is a Beta Cephei variable star with rapid brightness changes of about a hundredth of a magnitude...

the blue-white hue of a B-type star. This is classified as a Beta Cephei type variable star with a primary period of 0.16961 days (4 hours 4 minutes)...

blue-white glow of a B-type star. In 1956 it was identified as a Beta Cephei variable by Bernard Pagel and colleagues, which means it undergoes periodic...

the naked eye. It has a stellar classification of B1.5III and is a Beta Cephei variable. This star has more than ten times the mass of the Sun and is more...

he discovered the strange behavior of Beta Cephei, which later became the prototype for Beta Cephei variable stars. He played a significant role in bringing...

300 light-years distant from the Solar System. It is a suspected Beta Cephei variable. Located south of Iota Orionis, Upsilon Orionis is one of two stars...

times as luminous and 8 times as massive as the Sun. The star is a Beta Cephei variable with about 4.7 times the Sun's diameter, and pulsates every 2.2 hours...

its variable star designation in 1977. Anamarija Stankov ruled this star out as a Beta Cephei variable, but the GCVS and the International Variable Star...

Beta Cephei variable. (At the time he actually identified it as a Beta Canis Majoris star, which was subsequently designated a Beta Cephei variable.)...

constellation Puppis. Anamarija Stankov confirmed this star as a Beta Cephei variable. Analysis of its spectrum and allowing for extinction gives a mass...

eclipsing binary. Next to it is BV Cru, a magnitude 8.662 B0.5 giant and Beta Cephei variable. Next in line is DU Cru, an M2 red supergiant that varies irregularly...

class of classical Cepheid variables. The eponymous star for classical Cepheids, Delta Cephei, was discovered to be variable by John Goodricke a few months...

of classical Cepheid variables. However, the namesake for classical Cepheids is the star Delta Cephei, discovered to be variable by John Goodricke a month...

pulsations of its surface. The latter, for example, occurs with a Beta Cephei variable star. radio astronomy The subfield of astronomy that studies astronomical...