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We present observations of 36 late-M dwarfs obtained with the KeckII/NIRSPEC in the J-band at a resolution of \sim20,000. We have measured projected rotational velocities, absolute radial velocities, and pseudo-equivalent widths of atomic…

Since M4.5 - M9 dwarfs exhibit equatorial rotation velocities of order 10 km/s on average, radial velocity surveys targeting this stellar population will likely need to find methods to effectively remove starspot jitter. We present the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 J. R. Barnes , S. V. Jeffers , H. R. A. Jones , Ya. V. Pavlenko , J. S. Jenkins , C. A. Haswell , M. E. Lohr

High-resolution spectroscopic measurements of blue horizontal-branch stars in six metal-poor globular clusters -- M3, M13, M15, M68, M92, and NGC 288 -- reveal remarkable variations in photospheric composition and rotation velocity as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bradford B. Behr

We empirically determine effective temperatures and bolometric luminosities for a large sample of nearby M dwarfs, for which high accuracy optical and infrared photometry is available. We introduce a new technique which exploits the flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Casagrande , C. Flynn , M. Bessell

We present measurements of the projected stellar rotation velocities (v sin i) of a sample of 45 candidate field horizontal-branch (HB) stars spanning a wide range of effective temperature, from red HB stars with Teff ~ 5000 K to blue HB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bradford B. Behr

Context: Rotation plays a key role in the life cycles of stars with masses above 8 Msun. Hence, accurate knowledge of the rotation rates of such massive stars is critical for understanding their properties and for constraining models of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. O. Sundqvist , S. Simon-Diaz , J. Puls , N. Markova

We investigate the activity induced signals related to rotation in late type stars (FGKM). We analyse the Ca II H&K, the H alpha and the radial velocity time-series of 55 stars using the spectra from the HARPS public database and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 A. Suárez Mascareño , R. Rebolo , J. I. González Hernández , M. Esposito

The time scales of variability in active M dwarfs can be related to their various physical parameters. Thus, it is important to understand such variability to decipher the physics of these objects. In this study, we have performed the low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Vipin Kumar , A. S. Rajpurohit , Mudit K. Srivastava , José G. Fernández-Trincado , A. B. A. Queiroz

We present an analysis of K2 short cadence data of 34 M dwarfs which have spectral types in the range M0 - L1. Of these stars, 31 showed flares with a duration between $\sim$10-90 min. Using distances obtained from Gaia DR2 parallaxes, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 L. Doyle , G. Ramsay , J. G. Doyle , K. Wu , E. Scullion

We present the results of a spectroscopic analysis of rotational velocities in 714 M dwarf stars observed by the SDSS III Apache Point Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey. We use a template fitting technique to estimate $v\sin{i}$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Steven H. Gilhool , Cullen H. Blake , Ryan C. Terrien , Chad Bender , Suvrath Mahadevan , Rohit Deshpande

Close M-dwarf binaries and higher multiples allow the investigation of rotational evolution and mean magnetic flux unbiased from scatter in inclination angle and age since the orientation of the spin axis of the components is most likely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Shulyak , A. Seifahrt , A. Reiners , O. Kochukhov , N. Piskunov

In Data Release 9 of LAMOST, we present measurements of v sin i for a total of 121,698 stars measured using the Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS) and 80,108 stars using the Low Resolution Spectrograph (LRS). These values were obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Fang Zuo , A-Li Luo , Bing Du , Yinbi Li , Hugh R. A. Jones , Yi-han Song , Xiao Kong , Yan-xin Guo

The rotation-activity connection explains stellar activity in terms of rotation and convective overturn time. It is well established in stars of spectral types F--K and in M-type stars of young clusters. It is not established in field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ansgar Reiners

Context. Radial velocity monitoring of very cool dwarfs such as late M- and hot L-dwarfs has become a promising tool to search for rocky planets as well as to follow-up planetary candidates around dwarfs found by transit surveys. These…

The ultraviolet (UV) emission from the most numerous stars in the universe, M dwarfs, impacts the formation, chemistry, atmospheric stability, and surface habitability of their planets. We have analyzed the spectral evolution of UV emission…

We have studied the optical spectra of a sample of 31 O- and early B-type stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, 21 of which are associated with the young massive cluster NGC 346. Stellar parameters are determined using an automated fitting…

We present high-resolution echelle spectroscopy of 676 nearby M dwarfs. Our measurements include radial velocities, equivalent widths of important chromospheric emission lines, and rotational velocities for rapidly rotating stars. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 J. E. Gizis , I. N. Reid , S. L. Hawley

Stellar rotation periods are valuable both for constraining models of angular momentum loss and for under- standing how magnetic features impact inferences of exoplanet parameters. Building on our previous work in the northern hemisphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Elisabeth R. Newton , Nicholas Mondrik , Jonathan Irwin , Jennifer G. Winters , David Charbonneau

In a volume-limited sample of 63 ultracool dwarfs of spectral type M7-M9.5, we have obtained high-resolution spectroscopy with UVES at the Very Large Telescope and HIRES at Keck Observatory. In this second paper, we present projected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Ansgar Reiners , Gibor Basri

A rotation rate and X-ray luminosity analysis is presented for rapidly rotating single and binary M-dwarf systems. X-ray luminosities for the majority of both single & binary M-dwarf systems with periods below $\simeq 5-6$ days (equatorial…