[9] The system is notable for its circumbinary protoplanetary disk and its discovery has helped refine models of planet formation.

[10] HD 142527 is an extremely young star system, aged about 1 million years old[11] so it retains its protoplanetary disk, which has a mass of 15% of the Sun and a diameter of 980 AU.

Studies have shown eddies and vortex structures forming in the disk under the influence of two large planets.

[12] The system is important as it allows astronomers to observe the accretion process in planetary formation.

In early 2013 an article was published by astronomers working with the ALMA telescope in Chile, which refers to the discovery of two massive flows of matter in the system.