KOI-5 is a triple star system composed of three stars: KOI-5 A, KOI-5 B and KOI-5 C, orbiting 1,870±70 light-years away.
The two dim stellar companions to KOI-5A were discovered in 2016.[2] KOI-5 A and B orbit each other every 29 years, and KOI-5 C orbits stars A and B every 400 years.[4] KOI-5C is physically associated with the core stellar pair with probability 99.98%.[6]
Two planets orbiting one of KOI-5's stars were suspected since 2009 based on Kepler data, but KOI-5Ab was confirmed only in January 2021 after TESS determined the planet is orbiting KOI-5A. The exoplanet has caused interest in the scientific community because its orbital plane is misaligned with the closer star, suggesting it gave KOI-5Ab a gravitational kick during its development, resulting in the misalignment and inward migration to the current orbit.[4][7] However, the confirmation of this planet has yet to be published in any peer-reviewed journal.
A second candidate planet was initially suspected, but was later found to be a false positive.[8]
^ abcFurlan, E.; Ciardi, D. R.; Everett, M. E.; Saylors, M.; Teske, J. K.; Horch, E. P.; Howell, S. B.; Van Belle, G. T.; Hirsch, L. A.; Gautier, T. N.; Adams, E. R.; Barrado, D.; Cartier, K. M. S.; Dressing, C. D.; Dupree, A. K.; Gilliland, R. L.; Lillo-Box, J.; Lucas, P. W.; Wang, J. (2017), "The Kepler Follow-Up Observation Program. I. A Catalog of Companions To Kepler Stars from High-Resolution Imaging", The Astronomical Journal, 153 (2): 71, arXiv:1612.02392, Bibcode:2017AJ....153...71F, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/153/2/71, S2CID38339900
^Bellinger, E. P.; Hekker, S.; Angelou, G. C.; Stokholm, A.; Basu, S. (2020), "Stellar ages, masses, and radii from asteroseismic modeling are robust to systematic errors in spectroscopy", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 622: A130, arXiv:1812.06979, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834461, S2CID119293351
^ abBatalha, Natalie M.; Rowe, Jason F.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Barclay, Thomas; Burke, Christopher J.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Mullally, Fergal; Thompson, Susan E.; Brown, Timothy M.; Dupree, Andrea K.; Fabrycky, Daniel C.; Ford, Eric B.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Isaacson, Howard; Latham, David W.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Ragozzine, Darin; Shporer, Avi; Borucki, William J.; Ciardi, David R.; Gautier, Thomas N.; Haas, Michael R.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Koch, David G.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Rapin, William; et al. (2013), "Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler . III. Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 204 (2): 24, arXiv:1202.5852, Bibcode:2013ApJS..204...24B, doi:10.1088/0067-0049/204/2/24, S2CID19023502
^ abHirsch, Lea A.; Ciardi, David R.; Howard, Andrew W.; Everett, Mark E.; Furlan, Elise; Saylors, Mindy; Horch, Elliott P.; Howell, Steve B.; Teske, Johanna; Marcy, Geoffrey W. (2017), "Assessing the Effect of Stellar Companions from High-resolution Imaging of Kepler Objects of Interest", The Astronomical Journal, 153 (3): 117, arXiv:1701.06577, Bibcode:2017AJ....153..117H, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/153/3/117, S2CID39321033
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