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Star in the southern constellation of Lupus
This article is about k Lupi. Not to be confused with κ (kappa) Lupi.
HD 137058 is a star in the southern constellation of Lupus. Eggleton and Tokovinin (2008) list it as a single star, although Nitschelm and David (2011) noted it may be a double-lined spectroscopic binary. Its apparent visual magnitude is 4.60, which is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 13.6 mas, it is located 240 light years away.
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Nitschelm, C.; David, M. (September 2011), "An Investigation on Close Binaries in the Sco-Cen Complex", in Schmidtobreick, Linda; Schreiber, Matthias R.; Tappert, Claus (eds.), Evolution of compact binaries. Proceedings of a workshop held at Hotel San Martín, Viña del Mar, Chile 6-11 May 2011, ASP Conference Proceedings, vol. 447, San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 75, Bibcode:2011ASPC..447...75N.