It is a blue-white main sequence star of apparent magnitude 4.62 located over 1,300 light-years distant from the Solar System.

[10] In his Star-Names and Their Meanings (1899), American amateur naturalist Richard Hinckley Allen noted that the name appeared on the star atlas Geography of the Heavens, composed by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, but its ultimate origin was unknown.

[15] The Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey defined it as the standard star for the O9.7V spectral type in 2011,[4] but the 2016 version redefined it as B0V.

[15] Subsequent review of Hipparcos catalog data indicated it was most likely a Beta Cephei variable, and is hence considered a candidate for that class.

[16] These are blue-white main sequence stars of around 10 to 20 times the mass of the Sun that pulsate with periods of 0.1 to 0.3 days; their changes in magnitude are much more pronounced in the ultraviolet than in the visual spectrum.