Alaybasan

Alaybasan is a binary star system in the constellation Triangulum, located about 127 light years from Earth. Although it is only a third-magnitude star, it is the brightest star in the constellation Triangulum. This is a double-lined spectroscopic binary star system with an orbital period of 31.39 days and an eccentricity of 0.53. The members are separated by a distance of 0.33 AU. The primary and secondary components have stellar classifications of A8III and A3III respectively, indicating that they evolved away from the main sequence and are now giant stars. Component A is 2.6 times more massive than the Sun, but expanded to 4.4 the Sun's radius and irradiates 60 times more than the Sun. Component B is somewhat smaller and less luminous, being 2.25 times more massive, 2.44 times larger and 30 times brighter than the Sun. The system has an age around 400 million years, less than 10% that of the Solar System. It is among the least variable of the stars that were observed by the Hipparcos spacecraft, with a magnitude varying by only 0.0005.