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    multiplicity systems known. Gamma Cassiopeiae is an eruptive variable star. It is the prototype of the class of Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars. In the late 1930s...
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  • A Gamma Cassiopeiae variableCassiopeiae variable) is a type of variable star, named for its prototype γ Cassiopeiae. γ Cassiopeiae variables show irregular...
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    disappearance of, the "shell" are called Gamma Cassiopeiae variables. Pleione and Gamma Cassiopeiae itself are both variable stars that have intermittent shell...
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    Scuti variable with a small amplitude and period of 2.5 hours. Gamma Cassiopeiae is the prototype Gamma Cassiopeiae variable star, a type of variable star...
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    appear to be stochastic while others show multiple periods. Gamma Cassiopeiae (γ Cas) variables are non-supergiant fast-rotating B class emission line-type...
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    Beta CassiopeiaeCassiopeiae, abbreviated Beta Cas or β Cas), officially named Caph /ˈkæf/, is a Delta Scuti variable star in the constellation of...
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    Delta Scorpii (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    space anywhere in the main ring system." Delta Scorpii A is a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable star. This type of star shows irregular slow brightness variations...
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    binary is a blue-white B-type giant star. It is classified as a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable and its brightness varies from magnitude 4.30 to 4.62. It is rotating...
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    Pleione (star) (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    disappear with the other setting stars. Pleione is classified as a Gamma Cassiopeiae type variable star, with brightness fluctuations that range between a 4.8...
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    Zeta Ophiuchi (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    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 1–10...
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    PP Carinae (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    the discovery that this star is a variable star, in 1951. This star is classified as a Gamma Cassiopeiae-type variable and its brightness varies from magnitude...
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    Beta Canis Minoris (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    variability, and in 1977 it was classified as a γ Cassiopeiae variable in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars. A number of studies have found no variation...
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    Psc), 349 lightyears, class G7 IIIa, magnitude 3.62. It is a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable with a weak magnetic field. Torcular ("thread"), otherwise Omicron...
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    Eta Centauri (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    slightly variable, and it is classified as a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable star with multiple periods of variability. The International Variable Star Index...
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    Alpha Arae (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    BE, indicating that it is a variable Be star but not obviously a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable. The International Variable Star Index defines it as GCAS...
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    Zeta Tauri (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    brightness. The General Catalogue of Variable Stars lists it as an eclipsing variable and a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable, but it may not be either. Hrvoje...
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    absorption lines) it is also dubbed the Spectral Gem of Southern Skies. Gamma Cassiopeiae, informally named Navi for astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom Iota...
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    variations are slight, Gomeisa is classified as a shell star (Gamma Cassiopeiae variable), with a maximum magnitude of 2.84 and a minimum magnitude of...
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    ṣadr "chest", the same word which gave rise to the star Schedar (Alpha Cassiopeiae). In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group...
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    visually and spectroscopically variable. Be stars can be classified as Gamma Cassiopeiae variables when a transient or variable disk is observed. Be stars...
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    each other as viewed from Earth, they are unrelated. Kappa is a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable of spectral type B2Vne, which brightened by 50% between 1963 and...
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    Eta Piscium (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    a weak magnetic field with a strength of 0.4±0.2 G, and is a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable. The companion, component B, is a magnitude 7.51 star. van Leeuwen...
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    Epsilon Cassiopeiae or ε Cassiopeiae, officially named Segin (/ˈsɛɡɪn/), is a single star in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. With an apparent...
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    Omicron Andromedae (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    Andromedae is a Gamma Cassiopeiae type variable star and the system's brightness varies from magnitude +3.58 to +3.78. The variable component is the...
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    supergiants Luminous blue variable Gamma Cassiopeiae variable R Coronae Borealis variable Eruptive binary RS Canum Venaticorum variable Cataclysmic or explosive...
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    Lambda Pavonis (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    hot blue star which has developed a gas disk around it. It is a γ Cassiopeiae variable or shell star which has occasionally brightened to magnitude 4.0...
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    HR 2501 (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    their search for beta Cephei variable stars in the southern sky. Christoffel Waelkens et al. confirmed that HR 2501 is variable in 1983, and reported that...
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    X Persei (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    surrounded by a disk of expelled material. This qualifies it as a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable, and the visual range is magnitude 6 - 7. In 1989 and 1990, the...
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    FY Canis Majoris (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    to the naked eye of an observer far from city lights. It is a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable star, whose brightness varies from magnitude 4.8 to 6.25. In 1967...
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    CX Draconis (category Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars)
    designation HD 174237 in the Henry Draper Catalogue; CX Draconis is the variable star designation. This is a double-lined spectroscopic binary system with...
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