HD 108874

HD 108874 is a star with a pair of orbiting exoplanets in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices.

It is located 194.5 light years from the Sun based on parallax measurements, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −30 km/s.

[8] The spectrum of HD 108874 presents as a G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G5 V.[3] (An alternate source gives a class of G9 V.)[4] It is probably billions of years older than the Sun although the age is not well constrained.

The level of magnetic activity in the chromosphere is lower than in the Sun and it is spinning with a low rotation period of 40 days.

[6][3] The star is radiating 1.19[1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about 5600 K.[6] In 2003, the jovian planet HD 108874 b was discovered by the US-based team led by Paul Butler, Geoffrey Marcy, Steven Vogt, and Debra Fischer.