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Star in the constellation Tucana
Eta Tucanae ,
Latinized from η Tucanae, is a probable
binary star
[6] system in the southern
constellation of
Tucana , a few degrees to the north of
Epsilon Tucanae . It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued point of light with an
apparent visual magnitude of +5.00.
[2]
parallax measurements provide a distance estimate of about 154
light years from the Sun, and it is drifting further away with a mean
radial velocity of +32.5 km/s.
[4] It is a member of the 30 million year old
Tucana-Horologium association of co-moving stars.
[6]
[2]
The radial velocity for Eta Tucanae displays strong oscillations, suggesting this is a
spectroscopic binary system. A companion was directly detected in 2014, but this result has some unexplained anomalies.
[6] The primary component is an
A-type main-sequence star with a
stellar classification of A1V.
[2] It is spinning rapidly with a
projected rotational velocity of 190 km/s,
[6] giving it an equatorial bulge that is 15% larger than the polar radius.
[11] The star has 1.9
[6] times the
mass of the Sun and 1.8
[7] times the
Sun's radius . It is radiating 23
[8] times the
luminosity of the Sun from its
photosphere at an
effective temperature of 9,057 K.
[8]
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