Proxima Centauri: Time-resolved Astrometry of a Flare Site using {\it HST} Fine Guidance Sensor 3
Abstract
While carrying out astrometric monitoring of Proxima Centauri (a known flare star, V 645 Cen) for planetary mass companions with Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3 (FGS 3), we obtained photometry and astrometry for several significant and several minor flare events. For one major flare that produced a Delta V sim -0.6, time-resolved astrometry (effective 1 Hz rate) indicates a detonation at a distance 5.2 +/- 2.4 stellar radii from the center of Proxima Cen.
- Publication:
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Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun
- Pub Date:
- 1998
- Bibcode:
- 1998ASPC..154.1212B
- Keywords:
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- FLARE STARS;
- PHOTOMETRY;
- ASTROMETRY;
- FLARE-SITE ASTROMETRY