Searching for the Transit of the Earth-mass Exoplanet Proxima Centauri b in Antarctica: Preliminary Result

• Published in: The Astronomical Journal
• Main Authors: Liu, Hui-Gen, Jiang, Peng, Huang, Xingxing, Yu, Zhou-Yi, Yang, Ming, Jia, Minghao, Awiphan, Supachai, Pan, Xiang, Liu, Bo, Zhang, Hongfei, Wang, Jian, Li, Zhengyang, Du, Fujia, Li, Xiaoyan, Lu, Haiping, Zhang, Zhiyong, Tian, Qi-Guo, Li, Bin, Ji, Tuo, Zhang, Shaohua, Shi, Xiheng, Wang, Ji, Zhou, Ji-Lin, Zhou, Hongyan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2018
• Subjects: methods: data analysis – planets and satellites: terrestrial planets – stars: individual (Proxima Centauri) – techniques: photometric; Antarctic; Zhongshan; Zhongshan Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; polar night
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa9b86

Proxima Centauri is known as the closest star to the Sun. Recently, radial velocity (RV) observations revealed the existence of an Earth-mass planet around it. With an orbital period of ~11 days, Proxima Centauri b is probably in the habitable zone of its host star. We undertook a photometric monito...