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A Candidate Transit Event around Proxima Centauri

Authors :
Gudmundur Stefansson
Caleb I. Cañas
Paul Robertson
Andrew J. Monson
Yiting Li
Suvrath Mahadevan
Source :
Research Notes of the AAS. 1:49
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
American Astronomical Society, 2017.

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

Details

ISSN :
25155172
Volume :
1
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Research Notes of the AAS
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....6c386a606effcbc4a3a02fe62bc281c3