The Hill sphere transits of Beta Pictoris c and the search for another 1981-like event

arXiv:2609.02708 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-02

Code: https://github.com/mkenworthy/BetaPiccHS

Terminology

• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Universal Time — 1× in this paper

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