A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri

Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Pedro J. Amado, John Barnes +28

At a distance of 1.295 parsecs, the red-dwarf Proxima Centauri ($\alpha$ Centauri C, GL 551, HIP 70890, or simply Proxima) is the Sun's closest stellar neighbor and one of the best stud…