This star is known at least from 1801, when it was included to Lalande's stellar catalogue Histoire céleste française.[11] In 1847 edition of Lalande's catalogue by Francis Baily it was assigned number 25372, since it sometimes designated as Lalande 25372 or LAL 25372.[12]
High proper motion of this star and its large parallax were known at least from 1911, when Frank Schlesinger published a paper where he announced its parallax 152±7 mas and mentioned its proper motion value of 2.3 arcsec.[13] In 1919, German astronomer Max Wolf included GJ 526 in his catalogue of high proper motion stars, giving it the identifier 498.[14]
GJ 526 has been examined for an excess of radiation in the infrared. The presence of an infrared excess can be taken as an indication of a debris disk orbiting the star. However, no such excess was discovered around GJ 526.[15]
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^Suárez Mascareño, A.; et al. (September 2015), "Rotation periods of late-type dwarf stars from time series high-resolution spectroscopy of chromospheric indicators", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452 (3): 2745–2756, arXiv:1506.08039, Bibcode:2015MNRAS.452.2745S, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1441, S2CID119181646.
^Wolf, M. (1919), "Katalog von 1053 staerker bewegten Fixsternen", Veroeffentlichungen der Badischen Sternwarte zu Heidelberg (in German), 7 (10): 195–219, Bibcode:1919VeHei...7..195W.