π Earth: A 3.14 day Earth-sized Planet from K2's Kitchen Served Warm by the SPECULOOS Team

π Earth: A 3.14 day Earth-sized Planet from K2's Kitchen Served Warm by the SPECULOOS Team

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 t...

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Main Authors: Niraula, Prajwal, de Wit, Julien, 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, Pedersen, Peter P., Pozuelos, Francisco J., Queloz, Didier, Rebolo-López, Rafael, Lalitha, Sairam, Sebastian, Daniel, Thompson, Samantha, Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128490

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