[9] Tau Boötis B (with a capital B, as opposed to the planet) is a dim, 11 mag red dwarf with only about half the mass and radius of the Sun.

[4] In 1996 the planet Tau Boötis b was discovered orbiting the primary star by a team of astronomers led by R. Paul Butler.

[10] There are also some indications of another planet orbiting the star with a period of roughly 5,000 days; however, this could be due to an instrumental effect or a stellar magnetic activity cycle.

[12] The planet and its host star was one of the planetary systems selected by the International Astronomical Union as part of NameExoWorlds, their public process for giving proper names to exoplanets and their host star (where no proper name already exists).

[16] However, the IAU annulled the vote for the system, as the winning names ("Shri Ram Matt" for the star and "Bhagavatidevi" for the planet)[15] were judged not to conform with the IAU rules for naming exoplanets due to the political activities of the namesake people.