Habitable planets around the star Gliese 581?

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Franck Selsis · Université de Bordeaux

James F. Kasting · Pennsylvania State University

B. Levrard · Sorbonne Université

J. Paillet · European Space Research and Technology Centre

I. Ribas · Institute of Space Sciences

X. Delfosse · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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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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Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astro and Planetary Science Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies

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Published in: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volume 476, Issue 3, pp. 1373-1387

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20078091

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