Observations made between 2001 and 2003 by the Okayama Planet Search Program showed that Omega Serpentis is undergoing periodic radial velocity variations with a preliminary period estimate of 312.3 days.[9] Following this announcement in 2005, further observations were performed that were best explained by a planet following a Keplerian orbit, resulting in confirmation of planet existence in 2013.[3] This companion has an estimated orbital period of 277 days, a semimajor axis of 1.1 AU, and an eccentricity of 0.1.[3]
Since the inclination of the orbit is unknown, only a lower bound on the mass of the planet can be determined. The object has at least 170% the mass of Jupiter. However, these values for the semimajor axis and planetary mass are based on an adopted stellar mass of 2.17 times the mass of the Sun.[3] More recent results by Jofré et al. (2015) give a lower stellar mass estimate of 1.20 solar masses.[4]
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^Sato, Bun'ei; et al. (February 2005), "Radial-Velocity Variability of G-Type Giants: First Three Years of the Okayama Planet Search Program", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 57 (1): 97–107, Bibcode:2005PASJ...57...97S, doi:10.1093/pasj/57.1.97.