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EQ Pegasi (also known as Gliese 896) is a nearby binary system of two red dwarfs. Both components are flare stars, with spectral types of M4Ve and M6Ve respectively, and a current separation between the components of 5.8 arcseconds. The system is at a distance of 20.4 light-years, and is 950 million years old.[11] The primary star is orbited by one known exoplanet.[4]

Discovery

EQ Pegasi was first noticed to be a binary star by Carl A. Wirtanen who in the course of a systematic survey of the McCormick Observatory photographic plates for M-type dwarfs, detected a companion about two magnitudes fainter at a separation of 3.5 arcseconds.[12]

Both components were also thought to be single-lined spectroscopic binaries, with faint companions that have not been resolved in orbits of a few years,[13][14] but this is no longer thought to be the case. A 2021 study of nearby stars states that "the spectroscopic binarity classification [...] is almost certainly due to activity".[15]

Planetary system

In 2022, a Jovian planet was discovered in orbit around the system's primary star via radio astrometry. Along with the planet around TVLM 513-46546, this is the first confirmed exoplanet discovered entirely using astrometry.[4]

The Gliese 896 A planetary system[4]
Companion
(in order from star) 		Mass Semimajor axis
(AU) 		Orbital period
(days) 		Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b 2.26±0.57 MJ 0.64282±0.00068 284.39±1.47 0.35±0.19 69.20±25.61° —

In culture

In 1998, it was the basis of a hoax, as a telecommunications company claimed it had discovered "alien" signals originating from the star.[16]

References

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  11. ^ Crosley, M. K.; Osten, R. A. (2018). "Constraining Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections through Multi-wavelength Analysis of the Active M Dwarf EQ Peg". The Astrophysical Journal. 856 (1). 39. arXiv:1802.03440. Bibcode:2018ApJ...856...39C. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaaec2. S2CID 55448675.
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