It has a yellow-white hue and is dimly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.90.
[2] The star is located at a distance of 120 light years from the Sun based on parallax.
It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −17.3 km/s,[4] and is predicted to come as close as 20.7 ly (6.4 pc) in 2.08 million years.
It is radiating 4.6[6] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,300 K.[6] A candidate stellar companion, designated component B, lies at an angular separation of 11″ along a position angle of 265°.
[12][6] Three years later on June 30, 2003, the same team, using the same method, discovered a minimum mass 3.5 MJ second planet orbiting the star.