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I Tabula refractionum mediarum . 25 Tabula denlitatis aeris . 30 Uranus in oppoſitione Soli menfe Februario anni 1794 . 33 Mars in oppoſitione Soli . menfe Aprili 1794 · 34 Jupiter in oppoſitione Soli menfe Junio 1794 . - 36 Mercurius in maxima digreſſione orientali a Sole menſe Julio anni 1794 . 37 Sol prope ſolſtitium æſtivum anno 1794 . 38 Sol in æquinoctio verno anno 1794 . 39 Sol in æquinoctio autumnali anno 1794 . ibi Eclipfis Solis 31 Januarii anni 1794 . 40 Occultationes fiderum ſub diſcum Luna . ibi Obſervationes Mercurii annis 1782 1783 inſti tutæ a Barnaba Oriani . i . 41 Obſervationes Mercurii menfibus Julii & Au gufti anni 1793 inſtitutæ a - Barnaba Oriaui . 53 De vi & directione venti Mediolani fantis ex Barnaba Oriani . 73 Eclipſes de Soleil & occultations d ' Etoiles par la • Lune obſervées en Catalogne en 1792 , 93 & 94 . par M . Méchain . 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    LETTER doi:10.1038/nature22055 1 A temperate rocky super-Earth transiting a nearby cool star Jason A. Dittmann1, Jonathan M. Irwin1, David Charbonneau1, Xavier Bonfils2,3, Nicola Astudillo-Defru4, Raphaëlle D. Haywood1, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson5, Elisabeth R. Newton6, Joseph E. Rodriguez1, Jennifer G. Winters1, Thiam-Guan Tan7, Jose-Manuel Almenara2,3,4, François Bouchy8, Xavier Delfosse2,3, Thierry Forveille2,3, Christophe Lovis4, Felipe Murgas2,3,9, Francesco Pepe4, Nuno C. Santos10,11, Stephane Udry4, Anaël Wünsche2,3, Gilbert A. Esquerdo1, David W. Latham1 & Courtney D. Dressing12 15 16,17 M dwarf stars, which have masses less than 60 per cent that of Ks magnitude and empirically determined stellar relationships , the Sun, make up 75 per cent of the population of the stars in the we estimate the stellar mass to be 14.6% that of the Sun and the stellar Galaxy1. The atmospheres of orbiting Earth-sized planets are radius to be 18.6% that of the Sun. We estimate the metal content of the observationally accessible via transmission spectroscopy when star to be approximately half that of the Sun ([Fe/H] = −0.24 ± 0.10; all the planets pass in front of these stars2,3. Statistical results suggest errors given in the text are 1σ), and we measure the rotational period that the nearest transiting Earth-sized planet in the liquid-water, of the star to be 131 days from our long-term photometric monitoring habitable zone of an M dwarf star is probably around 10.5 parsecs (see Methods). away4. A temperate planet has been discovered orbiting Proxima On 15 September 2014 ut, MEarth-South identified a potential Centauri, the closest M dwarf5, but it probably does not transit and transit in progress around LHS 1140, and automatically commenced its true mass is unknown.
  • CIRCULAR No. 164 (FEBRUARY 2008)

    CIRCULAR No. 164 (FEBRUARY 2008)

    INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION COMMISSION 26 (DOUBLE STARS) INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 164 (FEBRUARY 2008) NEW ORBITS ADS Name P T e ­(2000) 2008 Author(s) ®2000± n a i ! Last ob. 2009 277 A 647 372y71 1876.01 0.292 39±4 101±8 00067 SCARDIA 00205+4531 0.9659 000947 122±0 136±8 2006.036 100.8 0.67 et al. (**) - HDS 102 46.76 2015.92 0.730 38.6 103.5 0.137 CVETKOVIC 00469+4339 7.6995 0.229 118.7 67.2 2001.7609 96.2 0.133 1763 EGG 2 Aa 109.86 2094.27 0.540 132.6 173.2 0.225 CVETKOVIC 02186+4017 3.2770 0.344 66.0 288.7 1999.8313 175.9 0.222 4396 A 2657 60.43 1964.86 0.466 20.1 224.2 0.172 DOCOBO 05482+0137 5.9573 0.137 18.9 350.4 1999.8833 227.5 0.167 & LING - FIN 382 28.28 1992.42 0.303 179.9 330.1 0.185 CVETKOVIC 05542-2909 12.7298 0.218 113.3 45.1 1993.0951 322.4 0.161 - RST 4816 28.46 2018.86 0.647 102.3 112.3 0.394 CVETKOVIC 06362-3608 12.6486 0.275 110.3 140.9 1996.1807 110.6 0.393 - FIN 322 59.59 1967.31 0.235 59.9 305.4 0.085 CVETKOVIC 06493-0216 6.0418 0.145 118.6 237.8 1997.1256 297.5 0.088 6526 A 1580 257. 2015.15 0.178 107.8 289.4 0.258 DOCOBO 08017-0836 1.4008 0.313 55.3 197.3 2003.9604 290.5 0.258 & LING - FIN 366 85.35 1965.84 0.609 149.4 36.1 0.135 CVETKOVIC 11495-4604 4.2178 0.269 73.3 83.6 1995.1027 40.0 0.132 - BLA 3 4.212 2009.443 0.569 15.3 29.9 0.147 DOCOBO 16171+5516 85.4701 0.129 107.7 119.4 2001.2711 10.7 0.099 et al.