Astronomy:Iota Eridani

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Short description: Solitary red clump giant star in the constellation Eridanus
ι Eridani
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Eridanus
Right ascension  02h 40m 40.03501s[1]
Declination −39° 51′ 19.3541″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 4.11[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K0 III[3]
U−B color index +0.74[2]
B−V color index +1.02[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−9.30±0.70[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +135.92[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −27.53[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)21.65 ± 0.18[1] mas
Distance151 ± 1 ly
(46.2 ± 0.4 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)0.877[5]
Details
Mass1.42[2] M
Radius11[6] R
Luminosity57.5[2] L
Surface gravity (log g)2.60±0.10[7] cgs
Temperature4,683±35[2] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.33±0.10[7] dex
Age4.12[2] Gyr
Other designations
ι Eri, CD−40° 689, FK5 1075, HD 16815, HIP 12486, HR 794, SAO 215999.[8]
Database references
SIMBADdata

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 red clump[5] giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III.[3] The measured angular diameter, after correcting for limb darkening, is 2.18±0.02 mas.[9] At an estimated distance of the star, this yields a physical size of around 11 times the radius of the Sun.[6] It has 1.42 times the mass of the Sun and radiates 57.5 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 4,683 K.[2] It is around four billion years old.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 van Leeuwen, F. (2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction", Astronomy and Astrophysics 474 (2): 653–664, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078357, Bibcode2007A&A...474..653V. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Johnson, H. L. et al. (1966), "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars", Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory 4 (99): 99, Bibcode1966CoLPL...4...99J. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Houk, Nancy (1978), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars, 2, Ann Arbor: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode1978mcts.book.....H. 
  4. de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Eilers, A.-C. (October 2012), "Radial velocities for the HIPPARCOS-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project", Astronomy & Astrophysics 546: 14, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219219, A61, Bibcode2012A&A...546A..61D. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Liu, Y. J. et al. (2007). "The abundances of nearby red clump giants". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 382 (2): 553–66. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11852.x. Bibcode2007MNRAS.382..553L. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Lang, Kenneth R. (2006), Astrophysical formulae, Astronomy and astrophysics library, 1 (3rd ed.), Birkhäuser, ISBN 3-540-29692-1, https://books.google.com/books?id=OvTjLcQ4MCQC&pg=PA41.  The radius (R*) is given by:
    [math]\displaystyle{ \begin{align} 2\cdot R_* & = \frac{(46.2\cdot 2.18\cdot 10^{-3})\ \text{AU}}{0.0046491\ \text{AU}/R_{\bigodot}} \\ & \approx 21.7\cdot R_{\bigodot} \end{align} }[/math]
  7. 7.0 7.1 Alves, S. et al. (April 2015), "Determination of the spectroscopic stellar parameters for 257 field giant stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 448 (3): 2749–2765, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv189, Bibcode2015MNRAS.448.2749A. 
  8. "iot Eri". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=iot+Eri. 
  9. Richichi, A. et al. (February 2005), "CHARM2: An updated Catalog of High Angular Resolution Measurements", Astronomy and Astrophysics 431 (2): 773–777, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20042039, Bibcode2005A&A...431..773R.