Exoplanet Gliese 581g Makes the Top 5

[Fraser]

Exoplanet Gliese 581g has “officially” made #1 on a list of potentially habitable worlds outside of our solar system, thanks to new research from the team that originally announced its discovery in 2010. Orbiting a star 20 light-years away, the super-Earth is now listed alongside other exoplanets*Gliese 667Cc, Kepler-22b, HD85512 and Gliese 581d in the [...]

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[whimsyfree]

Exoplanet Gliese 581g has “officially” made #1 on a list of potentially habitable worlds outside of our solar system, thanks to new research from the team that originally announced its discovery in 2010.

I thought confirmations were supposed to be done by someone else.

[whimsyfree]

The just preprinted paper Dynamical evolution and spin-orbit resonances of potentially habitable exoplanets. The case of GJ 581d says "The published radial velocities for the star are re-analysed with a benchmark planet detection algorithm, to confirm that there is no evidence for the recently proposed two additional planets (f and g).".

[whimsyfree]

The last of the supposedly habitable planets orbiting GJ581 bites the dust? The impact of red noise in radial velocity planet searches: Only three planets orbiting GJ581?