The ${\hat{I}}^2$ Pictoris b Hill sphere transit campaign. Paper I: Photometric limits to dust and rings

M. A. Kenworthy, S. N. Mellon, J. I. Bailey +33

Photometric monitoring of Beta Pictoris in 1981 showed anomalous fluctuations of up to 4% over several days, consistent with foreground material transiting the stellar disk. The su…