A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri

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Anglada-Escude, Guillem [1 ]
Amado, Pedro J. [2 ]
Barnes, John [3 ]
Berdinas, Zaira M. [2 ]
Butler, R. Paul [4 ]
Coleman, Gavin A. L. [1 ]
de la Cueva, Ignacio [5 ]
Dreizler, Stefan [6 ]
Endl, Michael [7 ]
Giesers, Benjamin [6 ]
Jeffers, Sandra V. [6 ]
Jenkins, James S. [8 ]
Jones, Hugh R. A. [9 ]
Kiraga, Marcin [10 ]
Kuerster, Martin [11 ]
Lopez-Gonzalez, Maria J. [2 ]
Marvin, Christopher J. [6 ]
Morales, Nicolas [2 ]
Morin, Julien [12 ]
Nelson, Richard P. [1 ]
Ortiz, Jose L. [2 ]
Ofir, Aviv [13 ]
Paardekooper, Sijme-Jan [1 ]
Reiners, Ansgar [6 ]
Rodriguez, Eloy [2 ]
Rodriguez-Lopez, Cristina [2 ]
Sarmiento, Luis F. [6 ]
Strachan, John P. [1 ]
Tsapras, Yiannis [14 ]
Tuomi, Mikko [9 ]
Zechmeister, Mathias [6 ]
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[1] Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Phys & Astron, 327 Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England
[2] CSIC, Inst Astrofis Andalucia, Glorieta Astron S-N, E-18008 Granada, Spain
[3] Open Univ, Dept Phys Sci, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Bucks, England
[4] Carnegie Inst Sci, Dept Terr Magnetism, 5241 Broad Branch Rd NW, Washington, DC 20015 USA
[5] Astroimagen, C Abad & Lasierra 58 Bis,6-2, Ibiza 07800, Spain
[6] Univ Gottingen, Inst Astrophys, Friedrich Hund Pl 1, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany
[7] Univ Texas Austin, McDonald Observ, 2515 Speedway,C1400, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[8] Univ Chile, Dept Astron, Camino El Observ 1515, Santiago, Chile
[9] Univ Hertfordshire, Sci & Technol Res Inst, Ctr Astrophys Res, Hatfield AL10 9AB, Herts, England
[10] Univ Warsaw Observ, Aleje Ujazdowskie 4, Warsaw, Poland
[11] Max Planck Inst Astron, Konigstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[12] Univ Montpellier, Lab Univers & Particules Montpellier, Pl E Bataillon CC 72, F-34095 Montpellier 05, France
[13] Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, 234 Herzl St, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[14] Astron Rech Inst, Monchhofstr 12-14, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS; MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS; RADIAL-VELOCITY; HABITABLE ZONE; SOUTHERN STARS; SUPER-EARTH; SPACED DATA; NO PLANET; GJ; 221; SEARCH;
D O I
10.1038/nature19106
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
At a distance of 1.295 parsecs(1), the red dwarf Proxima Centauri (a Centauri C, GL 551, HIP 70890 or simply Proxima) is the Sun's closest stellar neighbour and one of the best-studied low-mass stars. It has an effective temperature of only around 3,050 kelvin, a luminosity of 0.15 per cent of that of the Sun, a measured radius of 14 per cent of the radius of the Sun2 and a mass of about 12 per cent of the mass of the Sun. Although Proxima is considered a moderately active star, its rotation period is about 83 days (ref. 3) and its quiescent activity levels and X-ray luminosity(4) are comparable to those of the Sun. Here we report observations that reveal the presence of a small planet with a minimum mass of about 1.3 Earth masses orbiting Proxima with a period of approximately 11.2 days at a semi-major-axis distance of around 0.05 astronomical units. Its equilibrium temperature is within the range where water could be liquid on its surface(5).
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