Abstract: | Spectroscopic measurements of the Ap star HD 9996 yielded the radial velocity and the strength of the effective magnetic field. From the reversal of the magnetic field periods smaller than 4.92 years can be excluded. We cannot state an exact period, but a value of 20.60 years seems to be the most probable one. Further we find hints at a short period of about 1.8 days for the variations in the radial velocities as well as in the magnetic field strengths. The elements of the binary motion were derived. |