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Red clump
The Red Clump is a region on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram occupied primarily by metal-rich red giant stars. It is above/right relative to the main sequence and so consequently stars here are brighter than main sequence stars of the same surface temperature (or colder than stars of comparable luminosity).
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