Discovery
The team released a paper of their findings dated April 27, 2007, published in the July, 2007 journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. In the paper they also announced the discovery of another planet in the system, Gliese 581 d, with a minimum mass of 7.7 Earth masses and a semi-major axis of 0.25 astronomical units. (A reanalysis of the radial velocity data has since reduced the minimum possible mass of Gliese 581 d to 5.6 Earth masses.)
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