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2009MNRAS.399L..21B - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 399, L21-L23 (2009/October-2)

Proxima Centauri: a transitional modified Newtonian dynamics controlled orbital candidate ?

BEECH M.

Abstract (from CDS):

The triple-system candidacy of Proxima Centauri with α Centauri A/B is reviewed in terms of its potential to demonstrate an orbit controlled according to modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). It is noted that Proxima is already sufficiently distant from α Cen A/B that MOND corrections to its speed and orbit should be present and therefore potentially measurable. It is argued that present-day observations of the Proxima-α Centauri A/B system do not rule out the possibility that Proxima occupies a low-eccentricity orbit with an orbital period of the order of a few million years.

Abstract Copyright: © 2009 The Author. Journal compilation © 2009 RAS

Journal keyword(s): stars: individual: Proxima - stars: kinematics - gravitation

Simbad objects: 2

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