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Zeta Canis Majoris

Location of ζ Canis Majoris (circled)
Observation data Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0
Constellation	Canis Major
Right ascension	06 20 18.79204
Declination	–30° 03′ 48.1202″
Apparent magnitude (V)	+3.025
Characteristics
Spectral type	B2.5 V
U−B color index	–0.71
B−V color index	–0.195
Variable type	Suspected β Cep
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)	+32.2 km/s
Proper motion (μ)	RA: +7.32 mas/yr Dec.: +4.03 mas/yr
Parallax (π)	9.00 ± 0.13 mas
Distance	362 ± 5 ly (111 ± 2 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)	−2.21
Orbit
Period (P)	675 days
Eccentricity (e)	0.57
Periastron epoch (T)	2,416,508 JD
Argument of periastron (ω) (secondary)	207°
Semi-amplitude (K1) (primary)	13.5 km/s
Details
Mass	7.7±0.2 M☉
Radius	3.9 R☉
Luminosity	3,603 L☉
Surface gravity (log g)	4.0 cgs
Temperature	18,700 K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)	25 km/s
Age	32.0±0.4 Myr
Other designations
Furud, Phurud, ζ CMa, Zeta CMa, 1 Canis Majoris, CD−30°3038, FK5 240, HD 44402, HIP 30122, HR 2282, SAO 196698
Database references
SIMBAD	data

Zeta Canis Majoris, or ζ Canis Majoris, also named Furud /ˈfjʊərəd/, is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Canis Major. This system has an apparent visual magnitude of +3.0, making it one of the brighter stars in the constellation and hence readily visible to the naked eye. Parallax measurements from the Hipparcos mission yield a distance estimate of around 362 ly (111 pc) from the Sun. It is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +32 km/s.

Name

ζ Canis Majoris, Latinized from Zeta Canis Majoris, is the star's Bayer designation assigned by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603.

The traditional name Furud or Phurud derives from the Arabic ألفرود al-furūd "the solitary ones". This was an appellation early Arab poets used for a number of anonymous stars. Later Arabian astronomers attempted to identify the name with particular stars, principally in the modern constellations Centaurus and Colomba. The stars of Colomba were assigned to Canis Majoris in the Almagest, leading to more recent assignment of the name for Zeta Canis Majoris.

Al Sufi referred to these stars as ألأغربة al-ʼaghribah "the ravens".

In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included Furud for this star.

Properties

The binary nature of this system was first noted by G. E. Paddock based on observations made in 1906 from the D. O. Mills Observatory in Chile. It was confirmed in 1909 by S. A. Mitchell, using radial velocity measurements made by F. E. Harpham in 1908. It is a single-lined spectroscopic binary system, which means that the pair have not been individually resolved with a telescope, but the gravitational perturbations of an unseen astrometric companion can be discerned by shifts in the spectrum of the primary caused by the Doppler effect. The pair orbit around their common center of mass once every 675 days with an eccentricity of 0.57.

The primary component is a large star with nearly four times the Sun's radius and almost eight times the mass of the Sun. It has a stellar classification of B2.5 V, which means it is a B-type main sequence star that is generating energy through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen at its core. The star is emitting 3,603 times the luminosity of the Sun and is a suspected Beta Cephei variable. This energy is being radiated from its outer envelope at an effective temperature of about 18,700 K, giving it the blue-white hue of a B-type star. It is relatively young for a star, with an estimated age of 32 million years.

Zeta Canis Majoris is located close to the solar antapex.

References

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External links

• Kaler, James B., "FURUD (Zeta Canis Majoris)", Stars, University of Illinois, retrieved 2012-02-16

v t e Constellation of Canis Major
Canis Major in Chinese astronomy List of stars in Canis Major
Stars	Bayer α (Sirius) β (Mirzam) γ (Muliphein) δ (Wezen) ε (Adhara) ζ (Furud) η (Aludra) θ ι κ λ μ ν ν ν ξ ξ ο ο π σ (Unurgunite) τ ω Flamsteed 10 11 12 15 17 26 27 29 Variable R W Z UW VY CX EZ FN FS FY LS NR V352 HR 2225 2318 2437 2447 2450 2758 2764 2766 2812 HD 43162 43197 (Amadioha) 45184 45364 47186 54879 Other RX J0720.4−3125 WASP-64 (Atakoraka) WISE 0713−2917 WR 7
Exoplanets ν Canis Majoris b HD 47536 b c HD 47186 b c HD 45364 b c HD 43197 b
Star clusters	NGC NGC 2204 NGC 2354 NGC 2360 NGC 2362 NGC 2374 Other Gaia 1 Messier 41
Nebulae NGC 2359 NGC 2361 Sh2-297
Galaxies	NGC 2207 2217 2227 2280 2283 2293 Other Canis Major Overdensity IC 2163
Astronomical events SN 1999ec SN 2003H
Category

• B-type main-sequence stars
• Spectroscopic binaries
• Canis Major
• Bayer objects
• Durchmusterung objects
• Flamsteed objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Hipparcos objects
• Bright Star Catalogue objects
• Stars with proper names