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Gliese 832 (Gl 832 or GJ 832) is a red dwarf (spectrum M1.5V) in the constellation Grus. It is located relatively close to the Sun, at a distance of 16.1 light years. Gliese 832 has about half the mass and radius of the Sun.

In 2014, Gliese 832 was announced to be hosting the closest potentially habitable Earth-mass range exoplanet to our solar system.

Distance

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Planetary system

Gliese 832 hosts two known planets.

Discovery of Jupiter mass planet

In September 2008, it was announced that a Jupiter-like planet, now designated as Gliese 832 b, had been detected in a long-period, near-circular orbit around this star (false alarm probability thus far: a negligible 0.05%). It would induce an astrometric perturbation on its star of at least 0.95 milliarcseconds and is thus a good candidate for being detected by astrometric observations. Despite its relatively large angular distance, direct imaging is problematic due to the star–planet contrast.

Discovery of Gliese 832 c (super-Earth mass planet) in habitable zone

In 2014, a second planet was discovered by astronomers at the University of New South Wales. This one is believed to be of super-Earth mass and has since been given the scientific name Gliese 832 c. It was announced to orbit in the optimistic habitable zone but outside the conservative habitable zone of its parent star.

The planet is believed to be in, or very close to, the right distance from its sun to allow liquid water to exist on its surface.

Search for cometary disc

If this system has a comet disc, it is undetectable "brighter than the fractional dust luminosity 10" of a recent Herschel study.

X-ray source

Gliese 832 emits X-rays.

See also

• List of nearest stars
• List of extrasolar planets

Notes

1. Using the absolute visual magnitude of Gliese 832 ${\displaystyle \scriptstyle M_{V_{\ast }}=10.19}$ with a bolometric correction of ${\displaystyle \scriptstyle BC=-1.821}$ the bolometric magnitude can be calculated as ${\displaystyle \scriptstyle M_{bol_{\ast }}=8.369}$, the bolometric magnitude of the Sun ${\displaystyle \scriptstyle M_{bol_{\odot }}=4.73}$, and so therefore the bolometric luminosity can be calculated by ${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\frac {L_{bol_{\ast }}}{L_{bol_{\odot }}}}=10^{0.4\left(M_{bol_{\odot }}-M_{bol_{\ast }}\right)}}$
2. Using the absolute visual magnitude of Gliese 832 ${\displaystyle \scriptstyle M_{V_{\ast }}=10.19}$ and the absolute visual magnitude of the Sun ${\displaystyle \scriptstyle M_{V_{\odot }}=4.83}$, the visual luminosity can be calculated by ${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\frac {L_{V_{\ast }}}{L_{V_{\odot }}}}=10^{0.4\left(M_{V_{\odot }}-M_{V_{\ast }}\right)}}$

References

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6. Interpolated value from NASA Exoplanet Archive, per: Bessell, M. S. (1995). "The Temperature Scale for Cool Dwarfs". In Tinney, C. G. (ed.). The Bottom of the Main Sequence - and Beyond, Proceedings of the ESO Workshop. Springer-Verlag. p. 123. Bibcode:1995bmsb.conf..123B. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |booktitle= ignored (|book-title= suggested) (help)
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v t e Constellation of Grus
List of stars in Grus List of star names in Grus Grus in Chinese astronomy
Stars	Bayer α (Alnair) β (Tiaki) γ (Aldhanab) δ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ μ ν ξ ο π π ρ σ σ τ τ τ υ φ Variable RZ CE HR 8323 8501 HD 208487 (Itonda) 213240 215456 Other 2MASS J22282889–4310262 Gliese 832 PSR J2144−3933 S5-HVS1 WASP-95 WISE 2220−3628
Exoplanets Gliese 832 b HD 208487 b HD 213240 b τ Gruis b
Galaxies	NGC 7070 7070A 7072 7075 7079 7087 7213 7418 7424 7496 7531 7552 7582 7590 Other IC 1459 IC 5201
Galaxy clusters Abell S1063
Category

• M-type main-sequence stars
• Gliese and GJ objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Hipparcos objects
• Grus (constellation)
• Objects within 100 ly of Earth
• Planetary systems with one confirmed planet