[phas-dept] Prof. Quarles contributes to potential imaging of a new exoplanet.

[Kurtis Williams]

Hello everyone,

In case you didn't hear the news, Dr. Quarles is a co-author to one of two newly accepted papers that provide strong evidence for a potential planet around Alpha Cen A.  Dr. Quarles's contributions focused on the orbital modeling crucial to explaining the non-detection of the planet in some of the images.

A university press release about the discovery is here:
https://www.etamu.edu/news/east-texas-am-professor-contributes-to-major-discovery-of-planet-candidate-in-nearby-star-system/

And the paper itself is worth a read as well.  (See section 2 for an explanation of the many trials and tribulations of trying to image a putative planet.)
Beichman et al. 2025: https://arxiv.org/html/2508.03814v1

Congrats Billy!

Cheers,
Kurtis

Dr. Kurtis A. Williams (he/him/his)

Professor and Department Head

Department of Physics and Astronomy<https://www.tamuc.edu/physics>


P: 903.886.5488


East Texas A&M University<https://www.tamuc.edu/>
(formerly Texas A&M University-Commmerce)



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