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The McDonald Accelerating Stars Survey: Architecture of the Ancient Five-planet Host System Kepler-444

  • Authors: Zhoujian Zhang, 张周健, Brendan P. Bowler, Trent J. Dupuy, Timothy D. Brandt, G. Mirek Brandt, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Phillip J. MacQueen, Kaitlin M. Kratter, Howard T. Isaacson, Kyle Franson, Adam L. Kraus, Caroline V. Morley, Yifan Zhou

Zhoujian Zhang et al 2023 The Astronomical Journal 165 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Posteriors from our orbit analysis of Kepler-444. Details about each parameter, including credible intervals and the best-fit values of these parameters, are listed in Table 4. The top right panel shows the predicted relative astrometry between the A and BC components based on 1000 randomly drawn orbits from the MCMC chains, here color-coded by eccentricity. The black solid line shows the best-fit orbit. The two white circles mark the ascending node (i.e., the point in BC’s orbit in which it is moving toward the observer through the sky plane; labeled) and the descending node connected via a dashed line (i.e., the line of nodes). Kepler-444 A is shown as a black star, and the observed relative astrometry of BC traces out the orbital arc at the bottom right.

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