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HD 197037

star in the constellation Cygnus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ7486332 ↗
Source-derived summary

HD 197037 is a binary star system. Its primary or visible star, HD 197037 A, is a F-type main-sequence star. Its surface temperature is 6150±34 K. HD 197037 A is depleted in heavy elements compared to the Sun, with a metallicity Fe/H index of −0.16±0.03, but is younger at an age of 3.408±0.924 billion years.

A multiplicity survey detected a red dwarf stellar companion HD 197037 B in 2016, at a projected separation of 121 AU. The existence of other stellar companions at projected separations from 1.62 to 45.26 AU was excluded.

Planetary system

In 2012 one planet, named HD 197037 Ab, was discovered on a wide, eccentric orbit by the radial velocity method.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “HD 197037” as star in the constellation Cygnus. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where star, constellation and Cygnus can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as star in the constellation Cygnus. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7486332. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “HD 197037” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.