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Reason for different surface temperatures of Tau Ceti and Epsilon Indi at similar properties
Metallicity (or the fraction of things other than Hydrogen or helium)
If you look on the Wikipedia page it points out that Tau ceti is metal deficient ([Fe/H] = -0.55) and Epsilon Indi has [Fe/H] = -0....
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