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Some notions of graph operations are introduced to construct several triplex networks with star substructures. The methods of graph spectra are applied to derive the network coherence, and some asymptotic behaviors of the indices have been derived. It is found that the operations of adhering star topologies will make the first-order coherence increase a constant value under the triplex structures as parameters tend to infinity, and the second-order coherence have some equality relations as the node related parameters tend to infinity. 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