Press Release
Free Access

Table 2

Stellar parameters of GJ 581.

Parameters Values References

RA ICRS(2000) 15h19m27.509s Høg et al. (2000)
Dec ICRS(2000)  −07°43′19.44′′ ′′
μαcosδ  −1.228′′/yr ′′
μ δ  −0.098′′/yr ′′
Galactic longitude 354.08° ′′
Galactic latitude  + 40.01° ′′
Distance 6.338 ± 0.071 pc Phillips et al. (2010)
Spectral type M3.0 Reid et al. (1995)
Radius 0.299 ± 0.010 R von Braun et al. (2011)
Mass 0.28 M ′′
Bolometric lum. 1.22 ± 0.02 × 10-2 L ′′
Effective temp. 3498 ± 56 K ′′
Metallicity [Fe/H]  −0.25 Bonfils et al. (2005)
v sin i  < 2.1 km s-1 Delfosse et al. (1998)
Rotation period 93.2 ± 1 days Vogt et al. (2010)
Log LX (ergs/s)  < 26.44 Schmitt et al. (1995)
Age 2–8 Gyr see Sect. 3

Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.

Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.

Initial download of the metrics may take a while.