It was discovered in 2000 by the Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search team.
The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Lebanon, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU.
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
The signal could come from those variations instead of the planet orbiting the star or suggests that rotational modulation of the visibility of stellar surface activity is the source of the observed radial velocity variations.
[6] Finally, in 2003 the planet was confirmed; the planet is thought to be causing fluctuations in the system's magnetic field, causing visible activity.