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Yes, absolutely. It's a close binary, where you can get 90% or more the way to the truth by modelling the stars as a single object at their barycenter. TOI-1338 A is a star slightly larger than the sun, and TOI-1338 B, which is a star with ~a third of Sun's mass orbits it in 14 days. This is basically touching as far as stars go.


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