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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.

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Caption: Figure 4.

Distribution of integrated depths A for all of the windows with a time length of 80 minutes. GP regressions using the Matérn 3/2 kernel (blue) and Squared Exponential kernel (green) give similar distributions. The integrated depths of A > 0 represent the depression of the observed flux compared to the GP predicted flux, while those with A < 0 represent the excess. The distribution is asymmetric, as the frequent stellar flaring of Proxima Centauri enhances the probability of flux excess. The integrated depths of A > 0 are mirrored (red dotted curve) to construct a nominal full distribution. Its standard deviation σ is reported as the fluctuation purely induced by time-correlated noise, yielding σM = 2.66 hr (Matérn 3/2 GP models) and σSE = 2.67 hr (Squared Exponential GP models) for the time length of 80 minutes.

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