Iota Eridani
Solitary red clump giant star in the constellation Eridanus
Iota Eridani (ι Eri ) is a solitary star in the constellation Eridanus . It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent magnitude of 4.11.[ 2] With an annual parallax shift of 0.02165 arcseconds ,[ 1] it lies at an estimated distance of about 151 light years .
This is an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III.[ 4] The measured angular diameter , after correcting for limb darkening , is 2.248± 0.014 mas . This star is 3.55 billion years old, sufficient to have exhausted the hydrogen at its core and reached a red clump stage. It is only around 29% more massive than the Sun, but is eleven times larger. It radiates 54.7 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 4,700 K.[ 6]
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