Ο_Arietis
Omicron Arietis
Star in the constellation Aries
Omicron Arietis, Latinised from ο Arietis, is the Bayer designation for a single,[2] blue-white-hued star in the northern constellation of Aries. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +5.78,[2] which means it is dimly visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.49 mas as seen from Earth,[1] it is located roughly 590 light-years from the Sun. At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.22 due to interstellar dust.[10]
This is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B9 Vn.[3] The 'n' suffix indicates that it has nebulous absorption lines in its spectrum, which are caused by the Doppler effect and rapid rotation. Indeed, it has a projected rotational velocity of 225 km/s.[9] The star has an estimated 3.45[7] times the mass of the Sun and about 3.1[8] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating energy from its photosphere at 248 times the Sun's luminosity with an effective temperature of 10,715 K.[7]