3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
A nomenclature for individual exocomets
Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, Paul A. Strøm, Darryl Z. Seligman
With recent observational advancements, exocomet studies have entered a new era: we have moved from an epoch where exocomets' signatures were analysed to identify their true nature…
astro-ph.EP2025
Abundances of refractory ions in Beta Pictoris exocomets
T. Vrignaud, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, P. A. Strom +1
Beta Pic is a young, A5V star, known for harbouring a large number of exocomets, which frequently transit the star and produce absorption signatures. The physical and chemical prop…
astro-ph.EP2024
Quantifying spectroscopic Ca II exocomet transit occurrence in two decades of HARPS data
Raphaël Bendahan-West, Grant M. Kennedy, David J. A. Brown +1
The field of exocomets has been built around the unmatched number of detections made in the circumstellar disc of the archetypal star Beta Pictoris. An exocomet detection in spectr…