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Caption: Figure 2.
Barycentric velocity correction for TRAPPIST-1 from 2025 January to 2026 January. In our screening framework, sampled epochs between February and September do not satisfy the adopted 20° criterion. Over the retained epochs, the barycentric correction varies between approximately −30 and 0 km s−1. The sinusoidal modulation reflects the projection of Earth’s nearly circular orbital velocity onto the line of sight to the star, producing a radial component with an amplitude of about ±30 km s−1 and a 1 yr period, phase shifted according to the star’s ecliptic position. The right-hand y-axis shows the relative Doppler separation vsys − vbary(t), whose absolute value is maximized for TRAPPIST-1 at a barycentric velocity of 0.22 km s−1 within this framework.
© 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.