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 (Author), de Wit, Julien (Author), Rackham, Benjamin V (Author), Ducrot, Elsa (Author), Burdanov, Artem (Author), Crossfield, Ian J. M. (Author), Grootel, Valérie Van (Author), Murray, Catriona (Author), Garcia, Lionel J. (Author), Alonso, Roi (Author), Beard, Corey (Author), Maqueo Chew, Yilen Gómez (Author), Delrez, Laetitia (Author), Demory, Brice-Olivier (Author), Fulton, Benjamin J. (Author), Gillon, Michaël (Author), Günther, Maximilian N. (Author), Howard, Andrew W. (Author), Issacson, Howard (Author), Jehin, Emmanuël (Author), Pedersen, Peter P. (Author), Pozuelos, Francisco J. (Author), Queloz, Didier (Author), Rebolo-López, Rafael (Author), Lalitha, Sairam (Author), Sebastian, Daniel (Author), Thompson, Samantha (Author), Triaud, Amaury H. M. J. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society, 2020-11-16T20:54:56Z.
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