Finding Planets in the Alpha Centauri System “With Relatively Cheap Instrumentation”

Oscillations in the Habitable Zone around Alpha Centauri B

“The Alpha Centauri AB system is an attractive one for radial velocity observations to detect potential exoplanets. The high metallicity of both Alpha Centauri A and B suggest that they could have possessed circumstellar discs capable of forming planets. As the closest star system to the Sun, with well over a century of accurate astrometric measurements (and Alpha Centauri B exhibiting low chromospheric activity) high precision surveys of Alpha Centauri B’s potential exoplanetary system are possible with relatively cheap instrumentation.”