The distance to this system is 179 light-years based on parallax, and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +33 km/s.
It appears to be past the end of its main sequence lifetime, having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core.
[5] It is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of ~2 km/s[6] and has over twice the abundance of iron relative to hydrogen than the Sun.
Shama is an Urdu literary term meaning a small lamp or flame.
The exoplanet companion is called Perwana, meaning 'moth' in Urdu, alluding to the eternal love of an object circling a source of light.