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An Extremely Lithium-rich Bright Red Giant in the Globular Cluster M3

An Extremely Lithium-rich Bright Red Giant in the Globular Cluster M3

We have serendipitously discovered an extremely lithium-rich star on the red giant branch of the globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272). An echelle spectrum obtained with the Keck I HIRES reveals a Li I 6707 Angstrom resonance doublet of 520 milli-Angstrom equivalent width, and our analysis places the star among the …