A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii
- Submitting institution
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University of Keele
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 286
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41586-020-2400-z
- Title of journal
- Nature
- Article number
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- First page
- 497
- Volume
- 582
- Issue
- 7813
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2400-z
- Supplementary information
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10.1038/s41586-020-2516-1
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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96
- Research group(s)
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-
- Citation count
- 16
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Hellier led the team that built and operated the WASP-South transit-survey facility. Hellier used the WASP data on AU Mic to: (1) characterise the rotational period and magnetic activity of AU Mic (Extended Data Fig 3), using the multi-year lightcurve to characterise the timescale on which the starspots persist, and: (2) search for additional transits of AU Mic b to attempt to constrain the orbital period and enable the scheduling of follow-up observations with Spitzer (though the magnetic variability made the results inconclusive). Hellier drafted the 3 paragraphs "Ground-based light-curve analysis" of the "Methods" section.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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