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Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of α Centauri A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits

  • Authors: Charles Beichman, Aniket Sanghi, Dimitri Mawet, Pierre Kervella, Kevin Wagner, Billy Quarles, Jack J. Lissauer, Max Sommer, Mark Wyatt, Nicolas Godoy, William O. Balmer, Laurent Pueyo, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Jonathan Aguilar, Rachel Akeson, Ruslan Belikov, Anthony Boccaletti, Elodie Choquet, Edward Fomalont, Thomas Henning, Dean Hines, Renyu Hu, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Jarron Leisenring, James Mang, Michael Ressler, Eugene Serabyn, Pascal Tremblin, Marie Ygouf, Mantas Zilinskas

Charles Beichman et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 .

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Caption: Figure 19.

A prediction for the location of S1 based on the family of dynamically stable orbits for S1 + C1 consistent with the nondetections in 2025 suggests that S1 will be well positioned for recovery in 2026 August. Left: predicted position in sky coordinates. The approximate orientation of the 4QPM transition boundaries at the selected example observation date is shown as a shaded region. The dashed circle marks a 0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{^{\prime\prime} }﹩75 separation. Right: histogram of the predicted separation of S1 in 2026 August for the two orbital semimajor axis families. A dashed line marks a 0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{^{\prime\prime} }﹩75 separation. The a < 2 au orbits constitute a greater fraction of the total number of orbits and are also favored based on photometric modeling in Section 5.

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