BD−17 63 is a K-type main-sequence star in the southern constellation Cetus.
[1] The star is rotating slowly with a negligible level of magnetic activity and an age of over 4 billion years.
The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Cuba, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU.
This object was detected using the radial velocity method by search programs conducted using the HARPS spectrograph.
[5] An astrometric measurement of the planet's inclination and true mass was published in 2022 as part of Gaia DR3,[9][10] with another astrometric orbital solution published in 2023.