Speaker
Javier Banegas Paredes
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Description
We report evidence of the detection of two super-Earth candidates orbiting nearby M-dwarf stars, identified through CARMENES observations. Both stars show clean periodic signals of a few days and amplitudes consistent with low-mass planets. Thanks to ground-based photometry the stellar activity of the two targets were studied obtaining the stellar rotacional periods. Through Gaussian-process modelling, we efficiently separate stellar variability from true planetary signal. These candidates orbit close to the inner edge of the habitable zone of their host star, providing valuable insight into rocky worlds around cool stars.
Author
Javier Banegas Paredes
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)