• DOI:10.1093/mnras/stt2473
Corpus ID: 119285298

Consequences of an eccentric orbit for Fomalhaut b

@article{Tamayo2014ConsequencesOA,
  title={Consequences of an eccentric orbit for Fomalhaut b},
  author={D. Tamayo},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2014},
  volume={438},
  pages={3577-3586}
}

D. Tamayo

Published 2014

Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Fomalhaut b is currently the least massive, directly imaged exoplanet candidate. New observation epochs reveal this object to be moving on a highly eccentric orbit (Kalas et al. 2013), which sets important new constraints. I consider scenarios where Fomalhaut b is the only object interacting with the debris disk, and ones involving an additional unseen planet. I also investigate the possibility that Fomalhaut b is merely a transient dust cloud in light of the revised eccentric orbit. I argue… CONTINUE READING

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