Ask a Question

Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?

A transiting super-Earth close to the inner edge of the habitable zone of an M0 dwarf star

A transiting super-Earth close to the inner edge of the habitable zone of an M0 dwarf star

We present a super-Earth orbiting close to the inner edge of the habitable zone of the cool dwarf star K2-286 (EPIC 249889081), detected with data from the K2 mission in its 15th campaign. The planet has radius of 2.1 ± 0.2 R⊕, near the 1.5–2.0 R⊕ gap in the radii …