This
binary star
system was listed by Stephen Groombridge (1755 - 1834), whose «A Catalog
of Circumpolar Stars» was published posthumously in 1838, but its large proper
motion was not discovered and measured until 1860.
Two
of these candidates are common proper
motion companions to nearby main sequence stars; if confirmed as
binaries, these would be rare benchmark
systems with the potential to stringently test ultracool evolutionary models.