English

A Candidate Transit Event around Proxima Centauri

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2017-12-14 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

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 R1RR \sim 1 R_{\oplus}. We encourage continued monitoring of Proxima to elucidate the origin of this event.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1712.04483,
  title  = {A Candidate Transit Event around Proxima Centauri},
  author = {Yiting Li and Gudmundur Stefansson and Paul Robertson and Andrew Monson and Caleb Canas and Suvrath Mahadevan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.04483},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

3 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Research Notes of the AAS

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