It was previously known by the Flamsteed designation 44 Eridani, although the name has fallen out of use because constellations were redrawn, placing the star out of Eridanus and into Taurus.

The star is blue-white in hue and is dimly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.53.

[2] Cowley (1972) and later Bragança et al. (2012) found a stellar classification of B3V[11][12] for this object, matching a B-type main-sequence star.

Houk and Swift assigned it a class of B5 III/IV,[13] suggesting it is a more evolved star that is entering the giant stage.

[8] The star is radiating 127[2] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about 13,000 K.[3] An infrared excess has been detected, indicating the presence of a circumstellar disk.