Binary star in the constellation Tucana
Lambda2 Tucanae is a solitary[ 7] star in the southern constellation of Tucana . It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.45.[ 2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 14.6 mas as seen from Earth, it is located around 223 light years from the Sun . At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.09 due to interstellar dust .[ 2]
This is an orange-hued K-type giant star on the red giant branch ,[ 2] with a stellar classification of K2 III.[ 3] It has an estimated 1.75[ 2] times the mass of the Sun but after evolving away from the main sequence it has expanded to 9.8 times the Sun's radius . The star is radiating 39 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,605 K.[ 1]
References
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