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Lambda1 Phoenicis
Star in the constellation Phoenix From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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λ1 Phoenicis, Latinized as Lambda1 Phoenicis, is a double star[10] in the southern constellation of Phoenix. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued point of light with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.76.[2] The system is located approximately 183 light years away from the Sun based on parallax.[1] It is a member of the Hyades Supercluster.[11]
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The brighter component is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A0Va.[3] It may form a binary system of two roughly equal stars.[10] An infrared excess suggests there is a debris disk orbiting 46.3 AU from the star with a mean temperature of 95 K.[7] It has one visual companion at an angular separation of about 30″ and magnitude 13.7.[12][13]
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