Planetary System
In 1998 the California and Carnegie Planet Search team, after following a suggestion by Kevin Apps, a Briton who at the time was an undergraduate student found a possible planet orbiting the star. There were also indications of another, more distant body orbiting the star and this claim was published in 2006. This planet was confirmed in 2009.
| Companion |
Mass | Semimajor axis |
Orbital period |
Eccentricity | Radius |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | ≥ 0.523 ± 0.043 MJ | 0.0426 ± 0.0025 | 3.0965828 ± 0.0000078 | 0.0103 ± 0.0059 | — |
| c | ≥ 1.99 ± 0.25 MJ | 4.89 ± 0.53 | 3810 ± 420 | 0.252 ± 0.033 | — |
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