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We re-determine planetary occurrences around M dwarfs using 20 years of observations from HARPS on 197 targets. The first aim of this study is to propose more precise occurrence rates using the large volume of the sample but also variations…

Stellar activity and rotation frustrate the detection of exoplanets through the radial velocity technique. This effect is particularly of concern for M dwarfs, which can remain magnetically active for billions of years. We compile rotation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Elisabeth R. Newton , Jonathan Irwin , David Charbonneau , Zachory K. Berta-Thompson , Jason A. Dittmann

All the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) observations of AD Leo, totalling 1.1 Ms of exposure time, have been employed to analyze the corona of this single M dwarf. The light curves show a well defined quiescent stage, and a distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Sanz-Forcada , G. Micela

Although late-type dwarfs and giant stars are substantially different, their flares are thought to originate in similar physical processes and differ only by a scale factor in the energy levels. We study the validity of this approach. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Katalin Oláh , Bálint Seli , Zsolt Kővári , Levente Kriskovics , Krisztián Vida

We use ~12,000 spectra of ~3,500 magnetically active M0-M9 dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey taken at 10-15 minute intervals, together with ~300 spectra of ~60 M0-M8 stars obtained hourly with the Hydra multi-object spectrometer, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Keaton J. Bell , Eric J. Hilton , James R. A. Davenport , Suzanne L. Hawley , Andrew A. West , Allen B. Rogel

We present detections of stellar flares of Wolf\,359, an M6.5 dwarf in the solar neighborhood (2.41~pc) known to be prone to flares due to surface magnetic activity. The observations were carried out from 2020 April 23 to 29 with a 1-m and…

Extreme precision radial-velocity spectrometers enable extreme precision stellar spectroscopy. Searches for low-mass exoplanets around solar-type stars are limited by the physical variability in stellar spectra, such as the short-term…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Dainis Dravins , Hans-Günter Ludwig

Variability in the far ultraviolet (FUV) emission produced by stellar activity affects photochemistry and heating in orbiting planetary atmospheres. We present a comprehensive analysis of the FUV variability of GJ 436, a field-age, M2.5V…

Context. Searching for extrasolar planets through radial velocity measurements relies on the stability of stellar photospheres. Aims. We aim at characterizing the statistical properties of magnetic activity cycles, and studying their impact…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-28 C. Lovis , X. Dumusque , N. C. Santos , F. Bouchy , M. Mayor , F. Pepe , D. Queloz , D. Ségransan , S. Udry

(Abridged) We report results from a comprehensive study of the nearby M dwarf Proxima Centauri with the XMM-Newton satellite. We find strongly variable coronal X-ray emission, with flares ranging over a factor of 100 in peak flux. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Guedel , M. Audard , F. Reale , S. L. Skinner , J. L. Linsky

I present an empirical model for predicting a star's radial velocity jitter from its B-V color, activity level, and absolute magnitude. This model is based on observations of 450 well- observed stars from Keck Observatory for the California…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. T. Wright

Stellar flares are short-duration ($<$ hours) bursts of radiation associated with surface magnetic reconnection events. Stellar magnetic activity generally decreases as a function of both age and Rossby number, $R_0$, a measure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Adina D. Feinstein , Darryl Z. Seligman , Kevin France , Jonathan Gagné , Adam Kowalski

We present multi-wavelength observations of an M-class flare (M3.9) that occurred on 2014 June 11. Our observations were conducted with the Dunn Solar Telescope (DST), adaptive optics, the multi-camera system ROSA (Rapid Oscillations in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Damian J. Christian , David Kuridze , David B. Jess , Menoa Yousefi , Mihalis Mathioudakis

Context. Variability caused by stellar activity represents a challenge to the discovery and characterization of terrestrial exoplanets and complicates the interpretation of atmospheric planetary signals. Aims. We aim to use a detailed…

We report initial results from our long term search using precision radial velocities for planetary-mass companions located within a few AU of stars younger than the Sun. Based on a sample of >150 stars, we define a floor in the radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-18 Lynne Hillenbrand , Howard Isaacson , Geoffrey Marcy , Scott Barenfeld , Debra Fischer , Andrew Howard

We present a catalogue of rotation and chromospheric activity in a sample of 334 M dwarfs of spectral types M0--M4.5 populating the parameter space around the boundary to full convection. We obtained high-resolution optical spectra for 206…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ansgar Reiners , Nandan Joshi , Bertrand Goldman

The effect of stellar activity on RV appears to be a limiting factor in detecting Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone of a star similar to the Sun in spectral type and activity level. It is crucial to estimate if this conclusion remain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Nadège Meunier , Anne-Marie Lagrange

We discuss flaring variability of radio emission of microquasars, measured in monitoring programs with the RATAN-600 radio telescope. We carried out a multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergei A. Trushkin , Nikolaj N. Bursov , Nikolaj A. Nizhelskij

We present high resolution spectra of the AM CVn helium binary GP Com at two different wavelength ranges. The spectra show the same flaring behaviour observed in previous UV and optical data. We find that the central spike contributes to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Morales-Rueda , T. R. Marsh , R. C. North

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Galaxy, and their low masses make them natural favourites for exoplanet radial-velocity (RV) searches. Nevertheless, these stars often demonstrate strong stellar activity that is yet to be fully…