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Finding A Transneptunian Planet in IRAS data, Have we found a candidate?
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post Nov 13 2021, 10:58 PM
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there is this recent article about finding a possible transneptunian planet candidate
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.03831.pdf
The candidate discussed here would be likely to have mass 3-5 MEarth if it was in fact a planet and not something else

what interests me is how we didn't find it in later surveys of the night sky...
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post Nov 14 2021, 03:05 AM
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Unfortunately, the most likely explanation for not finding it in later surveys is that this object is an artifact of the image, not a real thing. But I'm sure people will be looking now.

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post Nov 14 2021, 08:33 AM
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post Nov 14 2021, 04:03 PM
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its possible it would just be an artifact in the data or a distant IR object
we need to see if the object moves in multiple images (like how we detect new dwarf planets or comets), if it moves, than we are onto something, if it does not, its a distant IR object or something else, and if its nowhere to be found, than its just a hiccup (artifact) in the data
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post Nov 15 2021, 03:22 AM
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There is an afterword in that paper that had me checking the Brown & Batygin blog here. There are a few 2021 updates that I hadn't seen.
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post Nov 15 2021, 12:14 PM
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QUOTE (stevesliva @ Nov 15 2021, 03:22 AM) *
There is an afterword in that paper that had me checking the Brown & Batygin blog here. There are a few 2021 updates that I hadn't seen.


interesting, scale diagram is nice, that size is a bit more realistic for a planet that may have been thrown out way far by jupiter (this is one of the formation theories), and couldn't grab any more material to grow to the size of the 2 known ice giants
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