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Biosignature Detectability on Transiting Habitable Worlds with the ELT/ANDES

  • Authors: Evann Kurzawa-Ferrandez, Aaron Bello-Arufe, Renyu Hu

Evann Kurzawa-Ferrandez et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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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.

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