Habitable planets around the star Gliese 581?

Franck Selsis, James F. Kasting, B. Levrard, J. Paillet, I. Ribas, X. Delfosse

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2007 · 541 citations · 74 references

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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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