This star is known at least from 1801, when it was included toLalande's stellar catalogueHistoire céleste française.[11] In 1847 edition of Lalande's catalogue byFrancis Baily it was assigned number 25372, since it sometimes designated asLalande 25372 orLAL 25372.[12]
High proper motion of this star and its large parallax were known at least from 1911, whenFrank Schlesinger published a paper where he announced its parallax152±7 mas and mentioned its proper motion value of 2.3 arcsec.[13] In 1919, German astronomerMax Wolf included GJ 526 in his catalogue of highproper motion stars, giving it the identifier 498.[14]
GJ 526 has been examined for anexcess of radiation in theinfrared. The presence of an infrared excess can be taken as an indication of adebris disk orbiting the star. However, no such excess was discovered around GJ 526.[16]
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^Stefanov, A. K.; Hernández, J. I. González; Mascareño, A. Suárez; Rebolo, R.; Nari, N.; Mestre, J. M.; Sousa, S. G.; Tabernero, H. M.; Osorio, M.-R. Zapatero (2025-09-03), "Stellar-activity analysis of the nearby M dwarf GJ 526. Multi-dimensional Gaussian-process modelling of RV, FWHM and S-index",arXiv:2509.03276 [astro-ph.SR].
^Baily, F.; Lalande, J. (1847).Catalogue of those stars in the Histoire Celeste Francaise of Jerome Delalande, for which tables of reduction to the epoch 1800 have been published by Prof. Schumacher.Bibcode:1847cshc.book.....B..Google Books id:oc0-AAAAcAAJ. Page with GJ 526:635.
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