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Table 6

Potential companions to planetary host stars, based on analysis of Gaia DR2 data.

Subset No. of Plx & PM matches RUWE > 1.4


systems No. % No. %
Exoplanet host stars
Desert 73 10 13.7 4 5.5
Above desert 339 62 18.3 18 5.3
Below desert 55 3 5.5 0 0.0
Above + below 394 65 16.5 18 4.6
Sum of all host stars 467 75 15.6 22 4.6

Analogous non-host stars
Desert 73 1 1.4 11 15.1
Above desert 339 27 8.0 49 14.5
Below desert 55 5 9.1 14 25.5
Sum of all non-host stars 467 33 7.1 74 15.8

Notes. ‘Plx & PM matches’ refers to potential long-period companions identified by their matching parallaxes and proper motions. ‘RUWE > 1.4’ refers to stars whose astrometric fits exhibit excess noise, potentially indicating the presence of a binary companion.

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