English

Stellar Diameters and Temperatures V. Eleven Newly Characterized Exoplanet Host Stars

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2015-06-18 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We use near-infrared interferometric data coupled with trigonometric parallax values and spectral energy distribution fitting to directly determine stellar radii, effective temperatures, and luminosities for the exoplanet host stars 61 Vir, ρ\rho CrB, GJ 176, GJ 614, GJ 649, GJ 876, HD 1461, HD 7924, HD 33564, HD 107383, and HD 210702. Three of these targets are M dwarfs. Statistical uncertainties in the stellar radii and effective temperatures range from 0.5% -- 5% and from 0.2% -- 2%, respectively. For eight of these targets, this work presents the first directly determined values of radius and temperature; for the other three, we provide updates to their properties. The stellar fundamental parameters are used to estimate stellar mass and calculate the location and extent of each system's circumstellar habitable zone. Two of these systems have planets that spend at least parts of their respective orbits in the system habitable zone: two of GJ 876's four planets and the planet that orbits HD 33564. We find that our value for GJ 876's stellar radius is more than 20% larger than previous estimates and frequently used values in the astronomical literature.

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@article{arxiv.1312.1792,
  title  = {Stellar Diameters and Temperatures V. Eleven Newly Characterized Exoplanet Host Stars},
  author = {Kaspar von Braun and Tabetha S. Boyajian and Gerard T. van Belle and Stephen R. Kane and Jeremy Jones and Chris Farrington and Gail Schaefer and Norm Vargas and Nic Scott and Theo A. ten Brummelaar and Miranda Kephart and Douglas R. Gies and David R. Ciardi and Mercedes Lopez-Morales and Cassidy Mazingue and Harold A. McAlister and Stephen Ridgway and P. J. Goldfinger and Nils H. Turner and Laszlo Sturmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1792},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS