- Source: Omicron Virginis
Omicron Virginis (ο Vir, ο Virginis) is a star in the zodiac constellation of Virgo. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.12. Based upon parallax measurements, it is about 163 light years from the Sun.
ο Virginis is a G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8 IIIa CN-1Ba1CH1. This indicates that it is a Barium star. Typically Barium stars are close binaries with a white dwarf companion, but no companion has been detected for ο Virginis. It has been suggested that an excess SiIV emission flux is due to an unseen white dwarf companion.
ο Virginis is a giant star around ten times larger than the Sun. Although it is slightly cooler, it is radiating about 60-132 times the luminosity of the Sun. It is over twice as massive as the Sun and is around a billion years old. A simplified statistical analysis suggests that ο Virginis is likely to be a red giant branch star fusing hydrogen in a shell around an inert helium core, but there is about a 22% chance that it is a horizontal branch star fusing helium in its core.
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