HD 154672 and Its Planet

HD 154672 is a G3 IV star located 206 light-years away. It is estimated to be 8 billion years old, with a mass of 1.08 solar masses, a radius of 1.44 solar radii, and a temperature of 5660 K. Its reported mass and radius estimates are larger than the Sun's, and its reported temperature is cooler than the Sun's. One planet is known to orbit this host.

That planet is HD 154672 b, discovered in 2008 by the radial velocity method, which detects the wobble a planet's gravity induces in its star's motion. Its minimum mass is 1710 Earth masses, and it completes one orbit every 164 days. This is a lower bound on the planet's true mass, not an ordinary mass estimate. HD 154672 b's minimum mass is larger than Earth's and roughly 5.37 times Jupiter's mass.