Planetary System
In 2008, a planet (designated 14 Andromedae b) was announced to be orbiting the star. The planet was found to have a minimum mass of 4.8 Jupiter masses and orbiting in a circular orbit that takes 186 days to complete. The planet is one of the innermost planets around an evolved intermediate-mass star (such planets have only been discovered in clump giants).
| Companion |
Mass | Semimajor axis |
Orbital period |
Eccentricity | Radius |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | 5.33±0.57 MJ | 0.83 | 185.84 ± 0.23 | 0 | — |
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