Revisiting Proxima with ESPRESSO
@article{SurezMascareo2020RevisitingPW, title={Revisiting Proxima with ESPRESSO}, author={A. Su{\'a}rez Mascare{\~n}o and J. P. Faria and Pedro Figueira and Christophe Lovis and Mario Damasso and Jonay I. Gonz{\'a}lez Hern{\'a}ndez and Rafael Rebolo and Stefano Cristiani and Francesco Pepe and N. C. Santos and Mar{\'i}a Rosa Zapatero Osorio and Vardan Adibekyan and S. Hojjatpanah and Alessandro Sozzetti and Felipe Murgas and Margarida Abreu and Matthew Affolter and Yann Alibert and Matteo Aliverti and Romain Allart and Carlos Allende Prieto and David Castro Alves and Manuel Amate and G. Avila and Veronica Baldini and Tobias Bandi and Susana C. C. Barros and A. Bianco and W. Benz and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Bouchy and C. Broeng and A. Cabral and Giorgio Calderone and Roberto Cirami and Jo{\~a}o M. P. Coelho and Paolo Conconi and Igor Coretti and Claudio Cumani and Guido Cupani and Valentina D’Odorico and Sebastian Deiries and Bernhard Delabre and Paolo Di Marcantonio and Xavier Dumusque and David Ehrenreich and A. B. Fragoso and Ludovic Genolet and Matteo Genoni and Ricardo G{\'e}nova Santos and Ian Hughes and Olaf Iwert and Florian Kerber and J. Knusdstrup and Marco Landoni and Baptiste Lavie and Jorge Lillo-Box and Jean Louis Lizon and G. Lo Curto and Charles Maire and Antonio Manescau and Carlos J. A. P. Martins and D. Megevand and A. Mehner and Giusi Micela and Andr{\'e}a Modigliani and Paolo Molaro and Manuel Monteiro and Mario Monteiro and Manuele Moschetti and Eric Mueller and Nelson J. Nunes and Luca Oggioni and A. Oliveira and Enric Pall{\'e} and Gina M. Pariani and Luca Pasquini and Ennio Poretti and Jos{\'e} Luis Rasilla and Edoardo Maria Alberto Redaelli and M. Riva and Samuel Santana Tschudi and Paolo Santin and P. Santos and Alex Segovia and Danuta Sosnowska and S{\'e}rgio G. Sousa and P. Span{\'o} and Fabio Tenegi and Susan M Udry and Antonio Zanutta and F. Zerbi}, journal={Astronomy \& Astrophysics}, year={2020} }
Context.The discovery of Proxima b marked one of the most important milestones in exoplanetary science in recent years. Yet the limited precision of the available radial velocity data and the difficulty in modelling the stellar activity calls for a confirmation of the Earth-mass planet.Aims.We aim to confirm the presence of Proxima b using independent measurements obtained with the new ESPRESSO spectrograph, and refine the planetary parameters taking advantage of its improved precision.Methods…
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