| Issue |
A&A
Volume 469, Number 3, July III 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | L43 - L47 | |
| Section | Letters | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077612 | |
| Published online | 25 May 2007 | |
Letter to the Editor
The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets *,**
XI. Super-Earths (5 and 8 M
) in a 3-planet
system
1
Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, 51 Ch. des Maillettes, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland e-mail: stephane.udry@obs.unige.ch
2
Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-018 Lisboa, Portugal
3
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, Université J. Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
4
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 98bis Bd Arago, 75014 Paris, France
5
Service d'Aéronomie du CNRS/IPSL, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, BP 3, 91371 Verrières-le-Buisson, France
Received:
4
April
2007
Accepted:
9
May
2007
This Letter reports on the detection of two super-Earth
planets in the Gl 581 system, which is already known to
harbour a hot Neptune. One of the planets has a mass of
5 
and resides at the “warm” edge of the habitable
zone of the star. It is thus the known exoplanet that most resembles
our own Earth. The other planet has a 7.7 mass and
orbits at 0.25 AU from the star, close to the “cold” edge of the
habitable zone. These two new light planets around an M3 dwarf
further confirm the formerly tentative statistical trend toward (i)
many more very low-mass planets being found around M dwarfs than
around solar-type stars and (ii) low-mass planets outnumbering
Jovian planets around M dwarfs.
Key words: stars: individual: Gl 581 / stars: planetary systems / techniques: radial velocities / methods: observational
© ESO, 2007
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