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HD 137388 is an orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Apus. It has the proper name Karaka, after the native New Zealand karaka tree. The name was assigned by representatives of New Zealand in the IAU's NameExoWorlds contest. The star is too faint to be visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 8.70. It is located at a distance of 132 light years from the Sun based on parallax. The star is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +26 km/s, having come as close as 52.9 light-years some 1.2 million years ago. It has an absolute magnitude of 5.75.

The stellar classification of HD 137388 is K2IV, matching that of an evolving subgiant star. However, in 2011 Dumusque and colleagues found a class of K0/K1V, suggesting it is instead a K-type main-sequence star. It is around three billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 2.2 km/s. The star shows a magnetic activity cycle, similar to the solar cycle. It has 93% of the mass of the Sun and 86% of the Sun's radius. Based on the abundance of iron in the spectrum, it is a high metallicity star with a greater abundance of heavy elements compared to the Sun. The star is radiating 53% of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,297 K.

Planetary system

Radial velocity studies indicate that it has a planet, originally named HD 137388 b (mass 0.223 MJ, period 330d). It orbits at a typical distance of 0.89 AU with an eccentricity of 0.36, completely overlapping the star's habitable zone. The planet was officially designated Kererū, the Māori name of the New Zealand pigeon, by the IAU in the same contest that named its parent star.

References

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v t e Constellation of Apus
Apus in Chinese astronomy List of stars in Apus
Stars	Bayer α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ κ Variable R (not variable) S Z MY NN NO HR 5240 5279 5306 5327 5389 5520 5547 5555 5628 5757 5786 5955 6135 6357 6373 6635 6646 6731 6751 HD 128294 129899 131664 134606 137366 137388 (Karaka) 141846 152010 Other Godzilla star
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