Niraula, Prajwal; Wit, Julien de; Rackham, Benjamin V.; Ducrot, Elsa; Burdanov, Artem; Crossfield, Ian J. M.; Grootel, Valérie Van; Murray, Catriona; Garcia, Lionel J.; Alonso, Roi; Beard, Corey; Maqueo Chew, Yilen Gómez; Delrez, Laetitia; Demory, Brice-Olivier; Fulton, Benjamin J.; Gillon, Michaël; Günther, Maximilian N.; Howard, Andrew W.; Issacson, Howard; Jehin, Emmanuël; ... (2020). π Earth: A 3.14 day Earth-sized Planet from K2's Kitchen Served Warm by the SPECULOOS Team. The astronomical journal, 160(4), p. 172. American Astronomical Society 10.3847/1538-3881/aba95f
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We report on the discovery of a transiting Earth-sized (0.95R⊕) planet around an M3.5 dwarf star at 57 pc, EPIC 249631677. The planet has a period of ~3.14 days, i.e., ~π, with an installation of 7.45 S⊕. The detection was made using publicly available data from K2's Campaign 15. We observed three additional transits with SPECULOOS Southern and Northern Observatories, and a stellar spectrum from Keck/HIRES, which allowed us to validate the planetary nature of the signal. The confirmed planet is well suited for comparative terrestrial exoplanetology. While exoplanets transiting ultracool dwarfs present the best opportunity for atmospheric studies of terrestrial exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope, those orbiting mid-M dwarfs within 100 pc such as EPIC 249631677b will become increasingly accessible with the next generation of observatories.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Demory, Brice-Olivier Denys |
Subjects: |
500 Science 500 Science > 520 Astronomy 500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
0004-6256 |
Publisher: |
American Astronomical Society |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Danielle Zemp |
Date Deposited: |
13 Apr 2021 14:53 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:34 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3847/1538-3881/aba95f |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/154811 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/154811 |
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