[2] The system is located at a distance of 78.7 light-years from the Sun based on parallax measurements.
[1] This is a K-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of K7Vk,[3] where the 'k' indicates interstellar absorption features in the spectrum.
[5] This star, which resembles a brighter red dwarf, is smaller and less massive than the Sun.
It is radiating just 9%[5] of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,103 K.[6] In 2009, a gas giant planet was found in orbit around it.
[8] Designated HIP 70849 b, it has 4.5 times the mass of Jupiter and takes more than 3000 days to orbit at a semimajor axis of 3.99 AU, with a high eccentricity.