Phantom planets.

• Autores: Ron Cowen
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 309, Nº. 2, 2013, págs. 25-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discuses the discovery of the exoplanet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B by Xavier Dumusque of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Massachusetts and colleagues. Topics include a reanalysis of Dumusque and colleagues' data by astronomer Artie Hatzes at the Thüringian State Observatory in Tautenburg, Germany, Hatzes' conflicting results, and the impact of hyperactive stars on accurate detection of extrasolar planets.