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HD 154088
HD 154088 is a seventh magnitude metal-rich K-type subgiant that lies 59.6 light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus. The star is orbited by a hot Super-Earth.
HD 154088 is a modestly bright star that lies at the bottom of Ophiuchus, near to the border with Scorpius and near to the plane of the Milky Way. The star was recognised as a high proper motion star during the last century, and early Earth-based parallax measurements such as that of the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars indicated a distance of about 50 light-years.
The star has a spectral type of K0IV-V, indicating that it has characteristics intermediate to a subgiant and main sequence star that is about 350 degrees cooler than the Sun. On the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (left), the star lies slightly above the main sequence. This is because the star is very metal-rich; with an Fe/H of 0.3 dex the star has about twice the solar abundance of iron, which makes HD 154088 fall into the somewhat vague group of super metal-rich (SMR) stars.[citation needed] The giant planet occurrence rate of Fe/H = 0.3 stars is on the order of 30%, but HD 154088 is not currently known to host any giant planets.
HD 154088 has a pronounced magnetic field. It also has a magnetic cycle similar to the Sun, though its length is not well constrained.
A survey in 2015 ruled out the existence of any additional stellar companions at projected distances from 8 to 119 astronomical units.
A planet orbiting HD 154088 discovered with the HARPS spectrograph was announced in a September 2011 preprint. With a minimum mass of 6 M🜨, the companion falls into the regime of Super-Earths. HD 154088 has also been observed under the Keck Eta-Earth radial velocity survey. A 2010 paper about this survey listed a "Candidate 1" that has similar properties to HD 154088 b (orbital period = 18.1 days, minimum mass = 6.5 M🜨), and so may be the same detection. The planet's existence was finally confirmed and formally published in 2021.
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HD 154088
HD 154088 is a seventh magnitude metal-rich K-type subgiant that lies 59.6 light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus. The star is orbited by a hot Super-Earth.
HD 154088 is a modestly bright star that lies at the bottom of Ophiuchus, near to the border with Scorpius and near to the plane of the Milky Way. The star was recognised as a high proper motion star during the last century, and early Earth-based parallax measurements such as that of the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars indicated a distance of about 50 light-years.
The star has a spectral type of K0IV-V, indicating that it has characteristics intermediate to a subgiant and main sequence star that is about 350 degrees cooler than the Sun. On the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (left), the star lies slightly above the main sequence. This is because the star is very metal-rich; with an Fe/H of 0.3 dex the star has about twice the solar abundance of iron, which makes HD 154088 fall into the somewhat vague group of super metal-rich (SMR) stars.[citation needed] The giant planet occurrence rate of Fe/H = 0.3 stars is on the order of 30%, but HD 154088 is not currently known to host any giant planets.
HD 154088 has a pronounced magnetic field. It also has a magnetic cycle similar to the Sun, though its length is not well constrained.
A survey in 2015 ruled out the existence of any additional stellar companions at projected distances from 8 to 119 astronomical units.
A planet orbiting HD 154088 discovered with the HARPS spectrograph was announced in a September 2011 preprint. With a minimum mass of 6 M🜨, the companion falls into the regime of Super-Earths. HD 154088 has also been observed under the Keck Eta-Earth radial velocity survey. A 2010 paper about this survey listed a "Candidate 1" that has similar properties to HD 154088 b (orbital period = 18.1 days, minimum mass = 6.5 M🜨), and so may be the same detection. The planet's existence was finally confirmed and formally published in 2021.