HD 132406
A Sun-like star with a super Jupiter planet.
HD 132406 is a G-type main-sequence star in Boötes, too dim to see without a telescope. It hosts one known exoplanet, a super Jupiter detected in 2007 via radial velocity variations. The star is older and slightly larger than the Sun, with a higher metallicity.
Quick Facts
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.45
- Distance
- 230 ly
- Radial velocity
- −37.8 km/s
- Absolute magnitude
- 4.30
- Spectral type
- G0V
- Age
- up to nine billion years
- Projected rotational velocity
- 1.7 km/s
- Mass
- similar to the Sun
Facts from the source article.
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