Iota Andromedae
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Iota Andromedae, also named Rasalnaqa,[13] is a single[14] star in the northern constellation of Andromeda. It has the Flamsteed designation 17 Andromedae, while Iota Andromedae is the Bayer designation as Latinized from ι Andromedae. This object is visible to the naked eye at night as a faint, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.29.[2] Based upon parallax measurements, it is located approximately 510 light years distant from the Sun.[1]
This object is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B8 V. It is among the least variable stars observed during the Hipparcos mission.[6] The star is 116[4] million years old with 3.1[4] times the mass of the Sun and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 70 km/s.[11] It is radiating 638[7] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 12,620 K.[10] The star is somewhat metal-poor, although the abundance of helium is close to solar. The latter excludes it from membership among the class of peculiar stars.[6] Iota Andromedae is a debris disk candidate, showing an infrared excess at a wavelength of 18 μm.[15]
Name
In the catalogue of stars in the Calendarium of Al Achsasi al Mouakket, this star was designated Keff al-Salsalat (كف المسلسلة - kaf al-musalsala), which was translated into Latin as Manus Catenata, meaning hand of the chained woman (i.e. Andromeda).[16] This name originally referred to a group of three starsTemplate:Sndι Andromedae, κ Andromedae, and λ AndromedaeTemplate:Sndalso known in traditional Arabic astronomy as Ra’s al-Nāqa, the head of the she-camel.[17] The IAU Working Group on Star Names approved the name Rasalnaqa for ι Andromedae on 8 May 2025 and it is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names; the name Kaffalmusalsala was given to κ Andromedae.[13]
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