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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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Caption: Figure 7.

Weak evidence for a prograde orbit of Kepler 1627Ab. The time of each Kepler transit was measured, along with the local slope of the light curve. The two quantities might be anticorrelated (≈2σ), which could be caused by starspot crossings during the first (second) half of transit inducing a positive (negative) TTV, provided that the orbit is prograde (Mazeh et al. 2015). The units along the abscissa can be understood by considering that the stellar flux changes by ∼60 ppt per half rotation period (∼1.3 days).

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