Star in the constellation Eridanus
h Eridani (HD 23319 ) is an orange-hued star in the constellation Eridanus . It has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.59,[ 2] which make it faintly visible to the naked eye in skies with low light pollution . The distance to HD 23319 can be estimated from its annual parallax shift of 18.5 mas ,[ 1] which yields a distance of about 176 light years . It is moving further away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +9.9 km/s.[ 4]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K1.5 IIIb CN0.5 ,[ 3] where the suffix notation indicates the spectrum shows a mild overabundance of the cyano radical . It is a red clump giant, indicating it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through helium fusion at its core .[ 7] The star has 1.4 times the mass of the Sun and, at the age of 3.2 billion years, has expanded to 11 times the Sun's radius . It is radiating 51 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,592 K.[ 5]
References
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Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR .
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^ a b Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series , 71 : 245, Bibcode :1989ApJS...71..245K , doi :10.1086/191373 .
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^ "HD 23319" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2018-07-21 .
^ Laney, C. D.; et al. (2012), "A new Large Magellanic Cloud K-band distance from precision measurements of nearby red clump stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 419 (2): 1637, arXiv :1109.4800 , Bibcode :2012MNRAS.419.1637L , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19826.x , S2CID 117788450 .