An international team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Paul Butler has found clear evidence of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. The new world, designated […]
Proxima Centauri
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Proxima Centauri as a Benchmark for Stellar Activity Indicators in the Near Infrared
A new generation of dedicated Doppler spectrographs will attempt to detect low-mass exoplanets around mid-late M stars at near infrared (NIR) wavelengths, where those stars are brightest and have the […]