Gliese 180 is known to have at least two exoplanets, designated Gliese 180 b and Gliese 180 d, and possibly a third, Gliese 180 c; all are super-Earths or mini-Neptunes.[12] Planets 'b' and 'c' were initially reported in 2014,[13] and a follow-up study in 2020 confirmed planet 'b' and found a new planet 'd', but did not find the previously claimed planet 'c'.[12] According to the 2014 study, planets 'b' and 'c' have an orbital period ratio of 7:5, which suggests a mean motion resonance that is stabilizing the orbits. The habitable zone of this star, by the criteria of Kopparapu and associates (2013), ranges from 0.12 AU out to 0.24 AU, which thus includes planet 'c'.[13]
According to the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) in Puerto Rico, both b and c worlds in the system may be classifiable as potentially habitable planets. Planets Gliese 180 b and Gliese 180 c have minimum masses of 6.4 and 8.3 Earth masses, respectively.[14] However, Dr Mikko Tuomi, of the UK's University of Hertfordshire, whose team identified the planets, disagreed, stating:
"The PHL adds some sort of an “extended HZ”, which I, frankly, do not know how it’s calculated, but that adds some areas of potential habitability to the inner and outer edges of the HZ as we have defined it. They included the inner companion of the GJ 180 system (planet b) that we consider too hot to be potentially habitable.”[14]
However, as of 2022, the PHL lists only planets c and d, not b, as potentially habitable.[15]
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^ abcFeng, Fabo; et al. (2020), "Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. II. Detection of Five New Planets, Eight Planet Candidates, and Confirmation of Three Planets around Nine Nearby M Dwarfs", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 246 (1): 11, arXiv:2001.02577, Bibcode:2020ApJS..246...11F, doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab5e7c, S2CID210064560.
^ abcTuomi, Mikko; et al. (2014), "Bayesian search for low-mass planets around nearby M dwarfs – estimates for occurrence rate based on global detectability statistics", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 441 (2): 1545–1569, arXiv:1403.0430, Bibcode:2014MNRAS.441.1545T, doi:10.1093/mnras/stu358, S2CID32965505.