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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 8.

Strengths of simulated TTVs of Proxima Centauri b varying with its eccentricity and the mass of the unseen outer planet, in coplanar near 2:1 and 3:2 MMR orbital configurations. The ranges of the eccentricity and the mass are contained by the RV observation of Anglada-Escudé et al. (2016). The upper limit of the unseen planet is 4.08 M and 3.60 M for near 2:1 and 3:2 MMR orbital configurations, respectively. In the left panel, the outer planet has an arbitrary orbital period of 22.58509 days, which is in near 2:1 MMR with Proxima Centauri b. In the simulations, the eccentricity of the outer planet is set to zero. The red solid curve represents the TTVs in strength of 30 minutes. The eight filled circles with error bars represent the arbitrary TTV models in the right panel of Figure 7. The right panel is for the coplanar near 3:2 MMR orbital configuration, where the orbital period of the outer planet is set to 16.89480 days arbitrarily.

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