Beta Leporis
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Beta Leporis (β Leporis, abbreviated Beta Lep, β Lep), formally named Nihal Template:IPAc-en,[1][2] is the second brightest star in the constellation of Lepus.[3]
Nomenclature
Beta Leporis is the star's Bayer designation. It is also known by the traditional named Nihal, Arabic for "quenching their thirst". The occasional spelling Nibal appears to be due to a misreading.[4] In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN)[5] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016[6] included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included Nihal for this star.
In Chinese, Template:Lang (Template:Lang), meaning Toilet, refers to an asterism consisting of β Leporis, α Leporis, γ Leporis and δ Leporis.[7] Consequently, the Chinese name for β Leporis itself is Template:Lang (Template:Lang), "the Second Star of Toilet".[8]
Properties
Based on parallax measurements from the Hipparcos astrometry satellite,[9] this star is located about Template:Convert from the Earth. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 2.84 and a stellar classification of G5 II. The mass of this star is 3.5 times the mass of the Sun and it is about 240 million years old,[10] which is the sufficient time for a star this massive to consume the hydrogen at its core and evolve away from the main sequence, becoming a G-type bright giant.[11] The angular diameter of Beta Leporis, after correction for limb darkening, is Template:Val.[12] At the distance to this star, it yield a physical radius of 15.9 times the radius of the Sun.[13]
This is a double star system and may be a binary, whereby the second star has a brightness of 7.34 mag.[14] Using adaptive optics on the AEOS telescope at Haleakala Observatory, the pair was found to be separated by an angle of 2.58 arcseconds at a position angle of 1.4°.[15] Component B has been observed to fluctuate in brightness and is catalogued as suspected variable star NSV 2008.[16]
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