24 Boötis
A red giant with a planet discovered in 2018.
24 Boötis, also designated g Boötis, is a yellow-hued star in Boötes faintly visible to the naked eye at magnitude +5.59. It is a red giant with a high space velocity, classified as a thick disk star. In 2018, an extrasolar planet was discovered orbiting it.
Quick Facts
- Apparent visual magnitude
- +5.59
- Distance from sun
- 308 light years
- Radial velocity
- −8 km/s
- Stellar classification
- evolving red giant with blended subgiant and giant characteristics, underabundance of iron
- Effective temperature
- 4,959 K
- Planet discovered
- 24 Boötis b (2018, Doppler Spectroscopy, Okayama Planet Search)
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