In 1979, Shyam M. Jakate announced the discovery that the star's brightness varies.[15] It was given its variable star designation, HY Velorum, in 1981.[16] The primary, which is the variable star, is a slowly pulsating B-type star having at least three pulsational modes, with the dominant mode showing a frequency of 0.64472 cycles per day,[7] corresponding to the catalogued period of 1.55106 days.[3] It has a stellar classification of B3 IV, matching a B-typesubgiant star.[4]
^ abcSamus, N. N.; Durlevich, O. V.; et al. (2009). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)". VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally Published in: 2009yCat....102025S. 1. Bibcode:2009yCat....102025S.
^ abHouk, Nancy (1978), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars, vol. 2, Ann Arbor: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode:1978mcts.book.....H.
^ abcDe Cat, P.; Aerts, C.; De Ridder, J.; Kolenberg, K.; Meeus, G.; Decin, L. (2000), "A study of bright southern slowly pulsating B stars. I. Determination of the orbital parameters and of the main frequency of the spectroscopic binaries", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 355: 1015–1030, Bibcode:2000A&A...355.1015D.
^Dodd, R. J. (April 2007), "Unified Absolute Spectrophotometry for Star Clusters", in Sterken, C. (ed.), The Future of Photometric, Spectrophotometric and Polarimetric Standardization. Proceedings of a conference held 8-11 May, 2006 in Blankenberge, Belgium, ASP Conference Series, vol. 364, San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 237, Bibcode:2007ASPC..364..237D.