HD 167665 is a yellow-white hued star with a brown dwarf companion in the southern constellation of Sagittarius. With an apparent visual magnitude of 6.39,[2] it is near the lower brightness limit for stars that are visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 32.4 mas as seen from Earth, it is located 101 light years from the Sun. The star is moving away from the Sun with a radial velocity of +8 km/s.[9]
Based upon regular variations in radial velocity observed between 1996 and 2006, an orbiting companion was announced by the California and Carnegie Planet Search (CCPS) program in 2007. This perturbing object, designated HD 167665 b,[10] has an orbital period of twelve years with an eccentricity of 0.342. The semimajor axis of this orbit is 5.62 AU[5] and the object has a mass of at least 50.3±0.4 MJ. Since the inclination of the orbit was initially unknown, the exact mass could not be determined, with a 79% chance that the mass of the object constrains it to be a brown dwarf with a mass less than 82 MJ.[11] In 2022, astrometric observations confirmed this object to be a brown dwarf, with a true mass of 52.708+5.112 −4.403MJ. Its inclination suggests a non-zero probability that it transits its star.[5]
^Reffert, S.; Quirrenbach, A. (March 2011), "Mass constraints on substellar companion candidates from the re-reduced Hipparcos intermediate astrometric data: nine confirmed planets and two confirmed brown dwarfs", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 527: 22, arXiv:1101.2227, Bibcode:2011A&A...527A.140R, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201015861, S2CID54986291, A140.