A Candidate Transit Event around Proxima Centauri [EPA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04483


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

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Y. Li, G. Stefansson, P. Robertson, et. al.
Thu, 14 Dec 17
27/74

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