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Searching for the Transit of the Earth-mass Exoplanet Proxima Centauri b in Antarctica: Preliminary Result

  • Authors: Hui-Gen Liu, Peng Jiang, Xingxing Huang, Zhou-Yi Yu, Ming Yang, Minghao Jia, Supachai Awiphan, Xiang Pan, Bo Liu, Hongfei Zhang, Jian Wang, Zhengyang Li, Fujia Du, Xiaoyan Li, Haiping Lu, Zhiyong Zhang, Qi-Guo Tian, Bin Li, Tuo Ji, Shaohua Zhang, Xiheng Shi, Ji Wang, Ji-Lin Zhou, and Hongyan Zhou

2018 The Astronomical Journal 155 12.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Illustration of the GP framework. Two windows with a time length of 80 minutes are presented. The left panels are the GP regressions using the Matérn 3/2 kernel and the right panels are for the Squared Exponential kernel. In all panels, the blocked data points are in red, the solid line is the best prediction of GP regression, and the dashed lines and dotted lines are the 1σ and 2σ confidence regions, respectively. The integrated depths of these two windows are the largest among those of all the 80 minute windows. The window in the top panels matches the candidate transit event of Proxima Centauri b, having an integrated depth of AM = 6.71 hr for the Matérn 3/2 kernel, while ASE = 6.73 hr for the Squared Exponential kernel. The window in the bottom panels has AM = 6.72 hr and ASE = 6.83 hr.

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