Fig. 1
Best-fit orbit of Proxima around α Cen projected in the plane of the sky (black curve), with a set of 100 possible orbits from a Monte Carlo approach (thin gray curves). The blue dots represent the position of Proxima every 40 000 yr (labels in millenia) and the direction of the present velocity vector of Proxima is shown as a red arrow.
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