Bibha
HD 86081 or Bibha, named after Indian physicist Bibha Chowdhuri, is a yellow-white dwarf star in the constellation Sextans south of the celestial equator. It is bigger and more massive than our Sun at 1.22 and 1.21 solar units respectively. It has temperature of 6028 K and luminosity of 1.75 solar.
HD 86081 shows no evidence of planetary transits in spite of a 17.6% transit probability.
The star is chromospherically inactive, with no emission seen in the core of the Ca II H and K lines.
The star began being monitored in November 2005
and its first planet was discovered on April 17, 2006.
