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Omicron Tauri

Star in the constellation Taurus

Star in the constellation Taurus

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ο Tauri, Latinized as Omicron Tauri, is a binary star system in the constellation Taurus, near the constellation border with Cetus. It has a yellow hue and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.61. It is approximately 270 light years from the Sun based on parallax, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −20 km/s. As the westernmost bright point of light in Taurus, this system has the Flamsteed designation 1 Tauri; Omicron Tauri is the Bayer designation.

This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary system with the two components orbiting each other over a period of 1655 days with an eccentricity of 0.263. The visible component is an aging G-type giant with a stellar classification of G6 III. This star has three times the mass of the Sun and 20–18 times the Sun's radius. Based on the latter, interferometry-measured radius, it is rotating once every 533 days. It is radiating 302 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,094 K.

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