In 2008 a study was undertaken of fourteen stars with exoplanets that were originally discovered using the transit method through relatively small telescopes. These systems were re-examined with the 2.2 m (87 in) reflector telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain. This star system, along with two others, was determined to be a previously unknown binary star system. The previously unknown secondary star is a dim magnitude 15 M-type star separated by about 111 AU from the primary, appearing offset from the primary by about one arc second in the images. This discovery resulted in a recalculation of parameters for both the planet and the primary star.[1]
The re-examination of the WASP-2 spectrum in 2015, have resulted in the measurement of stellar companion temperature equal to 3513±28 K, and angular separation of 0.73 arc second.[10]
^Sada, Pedro V.; Deming, Drake; Jennings, Donald E.; Jackson, Brian k.; Hamilton, Catrina M.; Fraine, Jonathan; Peterson, Steven W.; Haase, Flynn; Bays, Kevin; Lunsford, Allen; o'Gorman, Eamon (2012), "Extrasolar Planet Transits Observed at Kitt Peak National Observatory", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 124 (913): 212–229, arXiv:1202.2799, Bibcode:2012PASP..124..212S, doi:10.1086/665043, S2CID29665395