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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 507, Issue 1, Pages 487-494Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912172
Keywords
planetary systems; stars: late-type; techniques: radial velocities; stars: individual: GJ 581
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- Programme National de Planetologie (INSU-PNP)
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal) [SFRH/BPD/21710/2005, PTDC/CTE-AST/72685/2006, POCI/CTE-AST/56453/2004, PPCDT/CTE-AST/56453/2004, C2007-CAUP-FCT/136/2006]
- Gulbenkian Foundation
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/21710/2005, POCI/CTE-AST/56453/2004, PTDC/CTE-AST/72685/2006] Funding Source: FCT
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The GJ 581 planetary system is already known to harbour three planets, including two super-Earth planets that straddle its habitable zone. We report the detection of an additional planet - GJ 581e - with a minimum mass of 1.9 M(circle plus). With a period of 3.15 days, it is the innermost planet of the system and has a similar to 5% transit probability. We also correct our previous confusion about the orbital period of GJ 581d (the outermost planet) with a one-year alias, benefitting from an extended time span and many more measurements. The revised period is 66.8 days, and positions the semi-major axis inside the habitable zone of the low mass star. The dynamical stability of the 4-planet system imposes an upper bound on the orbital plane inclination. The planets cannot be more massive than approximately 1.6 times their minimum mass.
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