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Tau3 Gruis is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Grus. Its
apparent magnitude Apparent magnitude () is a measure of the brightness of a star or other astronomical object observed from Earth. An object's apparent magnitude depends on its intrinsic luminosity, its distance from Earth, and any extinction of the object's ...
is 5.71, which is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star. The star is located around distant from the Sun based on parallax, and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 6 km/s. This is an
Am star An Am star or metallic-line star is a type of chemically peculiar star of spectral type A whose spectrum has strong and often variable absorption lines of metals such as zinc, strontium, zirconium, and barium, and deficiencies of others, such as ca ...
with a stellar classification of kA5hA7mF2. This notation indicates the
spectrum A spectrum (plural ''spectra'' or ''spectrums'') is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary, without gaps, across a continuum. The word was first used scientifically in optics to describe the rainbow of colors ...
displays the
calcium K-line In physics and optics, the Fraunhofer lines are a set of spectral absorption lines named after the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826). The lines were originally observed as dark features (absorption lines) in the optical spectru ...
of an A5 star, the
hydrogen lines The emission spectrum of atomic hydrogen has been divided into a number of spectral series, with wavelengths given by the Rydberg formula. These observed spectral lines are due to the electron making transitions between two energy levels in an ...
of an A7 star, and the metal lines of an F2 star. It has 2.9 times the Sun's radius and is radiating 27 times the
luminosity of the Sun The solar luminosity (), is a unit of radiant flux ( power emitted in the form of photons) conventionally used by astronomers to measure the luminosity of stars, galaxies and other celestial objects in terms of the output of the Sun. One nominal ...
from its photosphere at an effective temperature of around 7,735 K.


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