Epsilon Aurigae

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5022.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5022. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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This star, sometimes known as `Almaaz' or `Al Anz', is an eclipsing binary of the same type as Algol, but of exceptionally long period. It is a pale yellow supergiant of spectral type F0Ia, apparent magnitude 3.03v. It is intrinsically brilliant (absolute magnitude -6.0), its luminosity having been estimated as about 200 000 times that of the Sun, but it is 2040 light-years away, with a parallax ...

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