A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri
- G. Anglada-Escudé, P. Amado, M. Zechmeister
- PhysicsNature
- 25 August 2016
Observations 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.
IDENTIFYING THE YOUNG LOW-MASS STARS WITHIN 25 pc. II. DISTANCES, KINEMATICS, AND GROUP MEMBERSHIP
- E. Shkolnik, G. Anglada-Escudé, M. Tamura
- Physics
- 20 July 2012
We have conducted a kinematic study of 165 young M dwarfs with ages of ≲300 Myr. Our sample is composed of stars and brown dwarfs with spectral types ranging from K7 to L0, detected by ROSAT and with…
The habitability of Proxima Centauri b. I. Irradiation, rotation and volatile inventory from formation to the present
- I. Ribas, É. Bolmont, G. Anglada-Escudé
- Geology, Physics
- 24 August 2016
Proxima b is a planet with a minimum mass of 1.3 MEarth orbiting within the habitable zone (HZ) of Proxima Centauri, a very low-mass, active star and the Sun's closest neighbor. Here we investigate a…
State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities
- D. Fischer, G. Anglada-Escudé, J. Wright
- Physics, Geology
- 25 February 2016
The Second Workshop on Extreme Precision Radial Velocities defined circa 2015 the state of the art Doppler precision and identified the critical path challenges for reaching 10 cm s−1 measurement…
CARMENES instrument overview
- A. Quirrenbach, P. Amado, W. Xu
- PhysicsAstronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
- 10 July 2014
This paper gives an overview of the CARMENES instrument and of the survey that will be carried out with it during the first years of operation. CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M…
CRIRES+: a cross-dispersed high-resolution infrared spectrograph for the ESO VLT
- R. Follert, R. Dorn, J. Smoker
- PhysicsAstronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
- 8 July 2014
High-resolution infrared spectroscopy plays an important role in astrophysics from the search for exoplanets to cosmology. Yet, many existing infrared spectrographs are limited by a rather small…
GJ 832c: A SUPER-EARTH IN THE HABITABLE ZONE
- R. Wittenmyer, M. Tuomi, M. Díaz
- Physics, Geology
- 21 June 2014
We report the detection of GJ 832c, a super-Earth orbiting near the inner edge of the habitable zone of GJ 832, an M dwarf previously known to host a Jupiter analog in a nearly circular 9.4 yr orbit.…
A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri at a distance of 1.5 AU
- M. Damasso, F. Del Sordo, J. F. Gómez
- Physics, GeologyScience Advances
- 1 August 2019
It is shown that the existence of the planet can be ascertained, and its true mass can be determined with high accuracy, by combining Gaia astrometry and radial velocities, and the candidate planet represents a challenge for the models of super-Earth formation and evolution.
CARMENES. I: instrument and survey overview
- A. Quirrenbach, P. Amado, M. Zechmeister
- PhysicsOther Conferences
- 5 October 2012
CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exo-earths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs) is a next-generation instrument for the 3.5m telescope at the Calar Alto…
Precision radial velocities of 15 M5-M9 dwarfs
- J. Barnes, J. Jenkins, G. Anglada-Escudé
- Physics
- 21 January 2014
J. R. Barnes, 'Precision radial velocities of 15 M5-M9 dwarfs', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 439 (3): 3094 - 3113, first published online 20 February 2014. The version of…
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