This is a list of exceptional red dwarfs.
List of titleholding red dwarf stars This is a list of red dwarfs that currently hold records.
List of red dwarf firsts + Firsts Record Title Star Date Data Notes Lacaille 8760 1753 Originally listed in a 1763 catalog that was published posthumously by Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. First discovered with planet(s) 1998 The Jovian planet was the first discovered around a red dwarf. First discovered with giant planet(s) 1998 The giant planet was the first planet discovered around a red dwarf. First discovered with terrestrial planet(s) 2012 3 terrestrial planets were discovered around KOI-961 in 2012, the first terrestrial planets found to orbit a red dwarf.
List of red dwarf extremes + Extremes Record Title Star Date Data Notes References EBLM J0555-57Ab 2017 r= Sz742017 2MASS J0523-1403 2015 67.54±12.79 Kepler-80 2012 0.73 1917 This is also known as Alpha Centauri C and is a member of the α Cen trinary system. It is the nearest neighbouring star to the Sun. UDF 3561 2010 202,000 ly (62,000 pc) 2MASS J0523-1403 UDF 2457 V= 25 Lacaille 8760 V= 6.69 Also called AX Microscopii. This is the 24th closest star to the Sun, and also intrinsically luminous for red dwarfs, having spectral class M0. See T Tauri star See cool subdwarfs
List of named red dwarfs This is a list of red dwarfs with names that are not systematically designated. Star Naming Notes Named for being the closest neighbouring star to Earth's Sun Lies within the Alpha Centauri star system Named after its discoverer, E. E. Barnard Second closest neighbouring star system to Earth, after α Cen. Also the star with the highest proper motion. Named for its discoverer, George van Biesbroeck Was once the least luminous, and, lowest mass, known star. Named for the astronomer who discovered it had gone missing, Jacobus Kapteyn Was once the star with the highest proper motion, thus making it move away from its recorded position in the sky and go "missing". Named after the lead investigator astrophysicist who discovered it, Bonnard J. Teegarden, through a datacrunching search of archived data.
List of nearest red dwarfs
Star Distancely (pc) Notes 1 Part of the α Cen trinary system, the closest neighbouring star system. It is also the nearest neighbouring star. 2 Second closest neighbouring star system 3 Also called CN Leonis 4 5 This is a binary star system with two red dwarfs 6Ross 1549.68 ly (2.97 pc)
List of least voluminous red dwarfs
Star Radius Radius Radiuskm(mi) Notes 1 0.084 0.84 This star is slightly larger than the planet Saturn. 2 0.086 0.86
Timeline of smallest red dwarf recordholders This is a list of titleholders of being the red dwarf with the smallest volume, and its succession over time.
+ List of smallest red dwarf titleholders Star Date Radius Radius Radiuskm(mi) Notes 0.084 0.84 This star is slightly larger than the planet Saturn. 0.086 0.86 0.120 1.16
See also List of least massive stars List of brown dwarfs Lists of stars
References