HD 173416 [SEP] constellation
HD 173416
HD 173416 is an intermediate-mass giant star in the constellation Lyra. It is a 6th magnitude star, relatively bright for its distance of about 440 light years from Earth.
Planetary system.
In January 2009, a planet of the star was discovered. This object was detected using the radial velocity method by search programs conducted from the Xinglong Station in China and the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (OAO) in Japan.
See also.
- List of extrasolar planets
was discovered in 2011. Visible to the naked eye are HD 173416, a yellow giant hosting a planet over twice the mass of Jupiter discovered in 2009; and HD 176051, a low-mass binary star containing another high-mass planet. Just short of naked-eye visibility is HD 178911, a triple system consisting of a close binary and a visually separable sunlike star. The sunlike star has a planet with over 6 Jupiter masses discovered in 2001, the second found in a triple system after that of 16 Cygni