Hide and Seek: Searching for planets around young active stars

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• Norbert Zicher (Oxford)
• Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00
• Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

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Located only 10 pc from the Sun, AU Mic is one of the brightest M-dwarfs in the sky (M1V, V=8.6). Its membership of the beta Pictoris moving group gives it an age of 12 +/- 2 Myr, and it has long been known to host an edge-on debris disk. There has been tentative detection of 2 orbiting planets, that if confirmed around such a young star could change planet formation and migration theories. For this, we analyse HARPS data in order to try and confirm the presence of these planets and/or put constraints on the detection limits. In order to make our results more robust, we perform injection tests, where we artificially introduce a signal into the data and try to recover it, in order to try to asses our sensitivity to the presence of such planets.

This talk is part of the Exoplanet Seminars series.

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