Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
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Constellation | Boötes |
Right ascension | 14h 02m 31.84551s[1] |
Declination | +09° 41′ 09.9444″[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 6.20[2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | G8:III: Fe-5[3] |
U−B color index | +0.38[2] |
B−V color index | +0.90[2] |
V−R color index | 0.50 |
R−I color index | 0.58 |
Variable type | Suspected[4] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | −26.39[5] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: −189.539[1] mas/yr Dec.: −70.415[1] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 3.0991 ± 0.0332 mas[1] |
Distance | 1,050 ± 10 ly (323 ± 3 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | −0.69[6] |
Details | |
Mass | 0.86[6] M☉ |
Radius | 23.5[1] R☉ |
Luminosity | 787[1] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 1.60[6] cgs |
Temperature | 4,598[6] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | −2.60[7] dex |
Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 5.0[7] km/s |
Age | 12.6[6] Gyr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
HD 122563 is an extremely metal-poor red giant star, and the brightest metal-poor star in the sky. Its low heavy element content was first recognized by spectroscopic analysis in 1963.[8] For more than twenty years it was the most metal-poor star known, being more metal-poor than any known globular cluster, and it is the most accessible example of an extreme population II or Halo star.
As the most extreme metal-poor star known, HD 122563's composition was crucial in constraining theories for galactic chemical evolution; in particular, its composition peculiarities provided signposts for understanding the accumulation of heavy elements by stellar nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy. For example, it has an excess of oxygen, [O/Fe] = +0.6,[9] while the proportions of strontium, yttrium, zirconium, barium and the lanthanide elements suggest that the s-process has made no contribution to the material present in the star: in HD 122563, all these elements are products of the r-process instead.[10] The implication is that the star formed at a time and place where there had not been enough time for any previous generation of stars to have produced s-process elements, though there was r-process material present.
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