DQ Herculis - Substellar Companion

Substellar Companion

Dai & Qian (2009) invoke the presence of a third object to explain orbital period variations observed in the dwarf nova. If the third body is confirmed, it would likely turn out a brown dwarf companion.


The DQ Herculis system
Companion
 Mass Semimajor axis
 Orbital period
 Eccentricity Radius
b ≥20 MJ 6.5 17.7 ≤0.12 —

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