Gliese 581f

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Gliese 581f is a proposed exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581, once considered a potentially habitable world but whose very existence remains unconfirmed and debated.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf candidate exoplanet
proposed exoplanet
unconfirmed exoplanet
announced 2010
announcedBy R. Paul Butler NERFINISHED
Steven S. Vogt NERFINISHED
confirmationStatus not confirmed by independent analyses
controversy signal may be an artifact of stellar activity or data sampling
dataSource radial velocity measurements of Gliese 581
discoveryMethod radial velocity
discoveryStatus disputed
discoveryTeam Lick–Carnegie Exoplanet Survey NERFINISHED
distanceFromEarth approximately 20 light-years
existenceStatus controversial
unconfirmed
galacticLocation Milky Way NERFINISHED
habitabilityStatus habitability now regarded as highly uncertain
once considered potentially habitable
hostStar Gliese 581 NERFINISHED
hostStarSpectralType M3V
hostStarType red dwarf
locatedIn Gliese 581 system NERFINISHED
Libra constellation NERFINISHED
minimumMass approximately 7 Earth masses
orbitalZone outer region of Gliese 581 system
orbits Gliese 581 NERFINISHED
planetType super-Earth candidate
relatedTo Gliese 581c NERFINISHED
Gliese 581d NERFINISHED
Gliese 581g NERFINISHED
researchTopic exoplanet detection limits in radial velocity data
false positives in exoplanet searches
starCatalogDesignationOfHost GJ 581 NERFINISHED

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