Habitable planets around the star Gliese 581?

2007/10/31 by Franck Selsis, James F. Kasting, J. F. Kasting +4 · 20 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078091

published as Astronomy and Astrophysics 476 (2007) 1373-1387 · Astronomy and Astrophysics (2007) accepted for publication

openalex publication_date 2007/11/06 · arxiv created 2007/11/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

Context.Thanks to remarkable progress, radial velocity surveys are now able to detect terrestrial planets at habitable distance from low-mass stars. Recently, two planets with minimum masses below 10 have been reported in a triple system around the M-type star Gliese 581. These planets are found at orbital distances comparable to the location of the boundaries of the habitable zone of their star.

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