HD 134060, also known by its Gould designation of 38 G. Circini, is a star in the southern constellation of Circinus. It is near the lower limit of stars visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 6.29.[2] The distance to HD 134060, as determined using an annual parallax shift measurement of 41.59 mas,[1] is 78.4 light years. It is moving further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of 43.5 km/s, having come within 34.6 ly some 439,000 years ago.[4]
The survey in 2015 have ruled out the existence of any additional stellar companions at projected distances from 22 to 163 astronomical units.[8]
Planetary system
Based upon an 8-year survey using the HARPS spectrograph at La Silla Observatory, in 2011 the detection of a pair of planets orbiting this star were announced. The inner planet, HD 134060 b, is in a tight, eccentric orbit around the star with a period of just over three days. The second object, HD 134060 c, has a more leisurely period of around 3.2 years and a high orbital eccentricity.[9]
^Suárez Mascareño, A.; Rebolo, R.; González Hernández, J. I.; Esposito, M. (2015), "Rotation periods of late-type dwarf stars from time series high-resolution spectroscopy of chromospheric indicators", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452 (3): 2745–2756, arXiv:1506.08039, Bibcode:2015MNRAS.452.2745S, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1441
^Mayor, M.; et al. (September 2011), "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XXXIV. Occurrence, mass distribution and orbital properties of super-Earths and Neptune-mass planets", arXiv:1109.2497 [astro-ph.EP]