In case people were wondering about it, Barnard's new planet is very non-transiting. Not even a grazing hint. TESS data shows the flattest of the flat lines. (Credit to @astronasko.bsky.social) 🪐🔭

Thank you! The full source is: arxiv.org/abs/2410.00577 🪐🔭

A sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard's star: No evidence of transits in TESS photometry

A sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard's star, designated as Barnard b, has been recently announced. At a similar time, the first photometric data of Barnard's star by the Transit Exoplanet Survey S...