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A Candidate Transit Event around Proxima Centauri
- Source :
- Research Notes of the AAS. 1:49
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- American Astronomical Society, 2017.
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Abstract
- We present a single candidate transit event around Proxima Centauri, found during a blind transit search using a robotic 30\,cm telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. The event lasted 1 hour, with an estimated depth of 5\,mmag, and is inconsistent with the transit window predicted for the recently discovered planet b. We modeled the lightcurve under the assumption that the event was caused by a transiting exoplanet, and our model predicts the planet has a radius $R \sim 1 R_{\oplus}$. We encourage continued monitoring of Proxima to elucidate the origin of this event.<br />Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Research Notes of the AAS
- Subjects :
- Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Physics
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Event (relativity)
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy
General Medicine
Radius
01 natural sciences
Exoplanet
law.invention
Telescope
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
13. Climate action
Observatory
law
Planet
0103 physical sciences
Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Transit (astronomy)
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 25155172
- Volume :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Research Notes of the AAS
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6c386a606effcbc4a3a02fe62bc281c3