Epsilon Trianguli Australis Star in the constellation Triangulum Australe
Epsilon Trianguli Australis , Latinized from ε Trianguli Australis, is a star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Triangulum Australe . It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.11.[ 2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 16.17 mas as seen from the Earth,[ 1] the star is located about 340 light years from the Sun . The star is moving closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of around −15.5 km/s.[ 4]
This is an evolved K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III.[ 3] It has around 1−2 times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 16.2 times the Sun's radius . The star is radiating 91 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,039 K.[ 5] It has an A5 type [ 7] magnitude 9.36 companion at an angular separation of 81.9 arc seconds along a position angle of 220°, as of 2010.[ 8] The pair may form a wide binary system.[ 7]
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^ a b Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 389 (2): 869– 879, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .
^ Mason, B. D.; et al. (2014), "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog" , The Astronomical Journal , 122 (6): 3466, Bibcode :2001AJ....122.3466M , doi :10.1086/323920 , retrieved 2015-07-22 "Optical pair, based on study of relative motion of the components using the method of apparent motion parameters. —DUN 188"