This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary system with an orbital period of 2.46 years and an eccentricity of 0.12.[6] The visible component is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of F6 V Fe-0.8 CH-0.4,[3] where the suffix notation indicates mild but anomalous underabundances of iron and the methylidyne radical. The secondary is most likely a helium white dwarf with 0.47 times the mass of the Sun. Mass transfer from the white dwarf progenitor has given the primary the spectral signature of a blue straggler that appears much younger than its actual age of about 10 billion years.[7]
^ abMurdoch, K.; Hearnshaw, J. B. (June 1993), "The orbit of the spectroscopic binary HR 3220", The Observatory, 113: 126–127, Bibcode:1993Obs...113..126M.