Class: GammaDoradus

Variable Star of gamma Dor type

•owl:Thing
        •AstrObject
                •StellarObject
                        •Star
                                •Dwarf
                                        •GammaDoradus
                •VariableObject
                        •PulsatingStar
                                •GammaDoradus

Super Classes

PulsatingStar
AStar OR FStar
Dwarf

Annotations

misc:descriptionGamma Doradus variables are variable stars which display variations in luminosity due to non-radial pulsations of their surface. The stars are typically young, early F or late A type main sequence stars, and typical brightness fluctuations are 0.1 magnitudes with periods on the order of one day. This is a relatively new class of variable stars, having been first characterised in the second half of the 1990s, and details on the underlying physical cause of the variations remains under investigation.
simbad:namegammaDor
simbad:shortCodegD*
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