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SVG image of the Gliese 581 system orbits. The orbital parameters are taken from Mayor et al. (2009), arXiv:0906.2780v1 [astro-ph.EP] "Title: The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XVIII. An Earth-mass planet in the GJ 581 planetary system", table 2. The semimajor axes have been rederived using Kepler's Third Law and a central stellar mass of 0.31 solar masses, as the values in the table are given to 1 significant figure only for the innermost 3 planets. The description element in the SVG's source code gives further information. Assumptions:
Interpreting the diagram The planetary orbits are drawn in orthographic projection, as viewed from directly above the plane of the system so that the orbital direction is anticlockwise. The dashed lines are drawn between the star and the periastron point of each planet, in order to depict the relative orientation of the orbits with respect to each other. The position of each planet in its orbit is calculated using the time of periastron in the table in the Mayor et al. (2009) paper, and are drawn at a time chosen to be close to the start of the Udry et al. (2007) radial velocity observations, which are available here. This time is chosen to minimise the effects of both uncertainties in the orbital parameters and potential orbital evolution of the system. While the orbits are drawn to the correct scale, the star and the planets themselves are not shown to scale as they would be too small to see on the scale of this diagram. In addition, the true radii of the planets themselves are currently unknown as no direct observation of the planets has yet been made. |
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Short title | Orbits of the Gliese 581 system |
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