DR1 (star)

DR1 (star)
Location of DR1 (circled in yellow), as captured by the VLT's OmegaCAM.
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0
Constellation Cetus
Right ascension 01h 05m 01.61780s
Declination +02° 04 19.9382
Apparent magnitude (V) 19.857
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage Wolf-Rayet
Spectral type WO3
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−226±18 km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +0.430 mas/yr
Dec.: +0.328 mas/yr
Distance721,000 pc
Absolute magnitude (MV)−4.43
Details
Mass20 M
Radius1.06 R
Luminosity479,000 L
Temperature150,000 K
Metallicity15% solar
Rotational velocity (v sin i)≤500 km/s
Other designations
DR 1 in IC 1613, IC 1613 WR, [BUG2007] B 17, CAIRNS J010501.61+020420.6, [AM85] IC 1613 6, Gaia DR3 2539058702595056640
Database references
SIMBADdata

DR1 is a solitary Wolf-Rayet (WR) star in the irregular dwarf galaxy IC 1613, located approximately 721 kiloparsecs (2,350,000 light-years) distant in the constellation of Cetus. An extremely rare star on the WO oxygen sequence, it may be the only Wolf-Rayet star in IC 1613.