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A 38 Million Year Old Neptune-sized Planet in the Kepler Field

  • Authors: L. G. Bouma, J. L. Curtis, K. Masuda, L. A. Hillenbrand, G. Stefansson, H. Isaacson, N. Narita, A. Fukui, M. Ikoma, M. Tamura, A. L. Kraus, E. Furlan, C. L. Gnilka, K. V. Lester, S. B. Howell

L. G. Bouma et al 2022 The Astronomical Journal 163 .

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Galactic positions and tangential velocities of stars in the δ Lyr cluster. Points are reported cluster members from Kounkel & Covey (2019). The tangential velocities relative to Kepler 1627 (bottom right) are computed assuming that every star has the same three-dimensional spatial velocity as Kepler 1627. Our analysis considers stars (black points) in the spatial and kinematic vicinity of Kepler 1627 (yellow star). The question of whether the other candidate cluster members (gray points) are part of the cluster is outside our scope. The location of the Sun (⊙) is shown to clarify the direction along which parallax uncertainties are expected to produce erroneous clusters.

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