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.
| Companion |
Mass | Semimajor axis |
Orbital period |
Eccentricity | Radius |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | ≥20 MJ | 6.5 | 17.7 | ≤0.12 | — |
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