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Epsilon Gruis
Star in the constellation Grus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ε Gruis, Latinised as Epsilon Gruis, is a blue-white hued star in the southern constellation of Grus. It is visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 3.5.[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 25.30 mas as measured from Earth,[1] it is located around 129 light years from the Sun. The system may be moving closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of about −0.4 km/s.[4]
This is an A-type subgiant of spectral type A2IVn,[3] a star that has used up its core hydrogen and has begun to expand off the main sequence. At the estimated age of 249 million years,[6] it is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 235 km/s.[5] This is giving the star an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is an estimated 18% larger than the polar radius.[8] The star displays an infrared excess, suggesting the presence of a circumstellar disk of orbiting dust.[9]
Epsilon Gruis is suspected of having a moderately active[10] close companion,[11] which is most likely the source of the weak X-ray emission from these coordinates with a luminosity of 1.3×1028 erg s−1.[10]
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