15 Leonis Minoris

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15 Leonis Minoris
Ursa Major constellation map.svg
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Location of 15 Leo Minoris (circled)
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0       Equinox J2000.0
Constellation Ursa Major [1]
Right ascension 09h 48m 35.37130s [2]
Declination +46° 01′ 15.6338″ [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)5.08 [3]
Characteristics
Spectral type G0 IV-V [4]
U−B color index +0.175 [5]
B−V color index 0.619±0.007 [3]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)5.20±0.09 [6]  km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: 221.788 [2]   mas/yr
Dec.: −92.816 [2]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)52.8994 ± 0.1260  mas [2]
Distance 61.7 ± 0.1  ly
(18.90 ± 0.05  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)3.75 [7]
Details
Mass 1.15 [8]   M☉
Radius 1.52 [9]   R☉
Luminosity 2.912±0.010 [2]   L☉
Surface gravity (log g)4.04 [4]   cgs
Temperature 5,859 [4]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.01 [4]   dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)3.97 [10]  km/s
Age 9.3 [11]   Gyr
Other designations
15 LMi, BD+46°1551, FK5  1255, GJ  368, HD  84737, HIP  48113, HR  3881, SAO  43046 [12]
Database references
SIMBAD data

15 Leonis Minoris is the Flamsteed designation for a single [13] star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Major. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.08, [3] making it a fifth magnitude star that is visible to the naked eye. Based on parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of 61.7  light years from the Sun. The star has been examined for an infrared excess, but none was detected. [14]

This star has a stellar classification of G0 IV-V [4] with an age of about 9.3 billion years, [11] which suggests that it is an older G-type main sequence star that may be evolving into a subgiant as the hydrogen at its core runs out. The estimated mass of the star is 15% greater than the Sun's mass, [8] and it is larger in girth than the Sun by +52%. [9] It is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 4 km/s. [10] The star is radiating almost three [2] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,859 K, [4] giving it the yellow-hued glow of a G-type star. [15]

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