Q10848431
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Alruba, a name derived from Arabic for "the foal", is a suspected astrometric binary star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco. It is just barely visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.76. Based on parallax measurements obtained during the Gaia mission, it is located at a distance of about from the Sun. The system is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −2 km/s.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Spectral type
- A2V
- Distance
- 464 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.000008972914417260114
- Coordinates
- RA 265.9965° · Dec 53.8017°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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Alruba, a name derived from Arabic for "the foal", is a suspected astrometric binary star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco. It is just barely visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.76. Based on parallax measurements obtained during the Gaia mission, it is located at a distance of about from the Sun. The system is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −2 km/s.
The visible component is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A0 V. It is about 58 million years old with three times the mass of the Sun and has a high rate of spin, showing a projected rotational velocity of 170 km/s. The star is radiating 147 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9,226 K. The system is a source for X-ray emission, which is most likely coming from the unseen companion.
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