Mikko Tuomi – Red Dots

Depiction of high energy emission from an active red dwarf. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger

The rapidly rotating Ross 154 – by Mikko Tuomi

27th July 2017 Mikko Tuomi 8

Perhaps the least known star in the Red Dots campaign, Ross 154, is a rapidly rotating M dwarf star that shows elevated activity levels and and flares on its surface. This makes the Red Dots […]

Proxima Centauri: What do we know? – by Mikko Tuomi

4th July 2017 Mikko Tuomi 13

Following the announcement of the discovery of Proxima b, the Red Dots campaign aims at detecting additional small planetary sized companions to Proxima Centauri. But we already have hints of variability in the star’s radial […]