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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

Stellar variability impacts radial velocities at various timescales and therefore the detectability of exoplanets and the mass determination based on this technique. It is necessary to implement systematic studies, to delineate the current…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Nadège Meunier , Romain Pous , Sophia Sulis , David Mary , Anne-Marie Lagrange

Stellar variability induce by starspots can hamper the detection of exoplanets and bias planet property estimations. These features can also be used to study star-planet interactions as well as inferring properties from the underlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Conrad Vilela , John Southworth , Carlos del Burgo

Detecting and characterising exoworlds around very young stars (age$<$10 Myr) are key aspects of exoplanet demographic studies, especially for understanding the mechanisms and timescales of planet formation and migration. However, detection…

Stellar activity patterns are responsible for jitter effects that are observed at different timescales and amplitudes. These effects are currently in the focus of many exoplanet search projects, since the lack of a well-defined…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 Enrique Herrero , Ignasi Ribas , Carme Jordi , Juan Carlos Morales , Manuel Perger , Albert Rosich

Active regions on the photosphere of a star have been the major obstacle for detecting Earth-like exoplanets using the radial velocity (RV) method. A commonly employed solution for addressing stellar activity is to assume a linear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 U. Simola , A. Bonfanti , X. Dumusque , J. Cisewski-Kehe , S. Kaski , J. Corander

Radial velocity (RV) searches for Earth-mass exoplanets in the habitable zone around Sun-like stars are limited by the effects of stellar variability on the host star. In particular, suppression of convective blueshift and brightness…

The radial velocity method is one of the most successful techniques for detecting exoplanets. It works by detecting the velocity of a host star induced by the gravitational effect of an orbiting planet, specifically the velocity along our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 David E. Jones , David C. Stenning , Eric B. Ford , Robert L. Wolpert , Thomas J. Loredo , Christian Gilbertson , Xavier Dumusque

The precise Doppler method for measuring stellar radial velocities (RV) is a fundamental technique in modern astronomy. This method records a star's spectrum and detects periodic Doppler shifts in its spectral features, which indicate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Trifon Trifonov

We present a method of modeling the radial velocity (RV) measurements which can be useful in searching for planets hosted by chromospherically active stars. We assume that the observed RV signal is induced by the reflex motion of a star as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Cezary Migaszewski , Grzegorz Nowak

We analyze the possibilities of detection of hypothetical exoplanets in coorbital motion from synthetic radial velocity (RV) signals, taking into account different types of stable planar configurations, orbital eccentricities and mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. A. Giuppone , P. Benitez-Llambay , C. Beauge

In light of the growing interest in searching for low mass, rocky planets, we investigate the impact of starspots on radial velocity searches for earth-mass planets in orbit about M dwarf stars. Since new surveys targeting M dwarfs will…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. R. Barnes , S. V. Jeffers , H. R. A. Jones

Stellar magnetic activity induces both distortions and Doppler-shifts in the absorption line profiles of Sun-like stars. Those effects produce apparent radial velocity (RV) signals which greatly hamper the search for potentially habitable,…

In this paper, we carry out simulations of radial velocity (RV) measurements of the mass of the 8-11 Myr Neptune-sized planet K2-33b using high-precision near infrared velocimeters like SPIRou at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Baptiste Klein , Jean-François Donati

In searches for low-mass companions to late-type stars, correlation between radial velocity variations and line bisector slope changes indicates contamination by large starspots. Two young stars demonstrate that this test is not sufficient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Prato , M. Huerta , C. M. Johns-Krull , N. Mahmud , D. T. Jaffe , P. Hartigan

We present models designed to quantify the effects of stellar activity on exoplanet transit spectroscopy and atmospheric characterization at low (R = 100) and high (R = 100,000) spectral resolution. We study three model classes mirroring…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-23 Frédéric Genest , David Lafrenière , Anne Boucher , Antoine Darveau-Bernier , René Doyon , Étienne Artigau , Neil Cook

(shortened for arXiv) We aim to progress towards more efficient exoplanet detection around active stars by optimizing the use of Doppler Imaging in radial velocity measurements. We propose a simple method to simultaneously extract a…

To date, only 18 exoplanets with radial velocity (RV) semi-amplitudes $<2$ m/s have had their masses directly constrained. The biggest obstacle to RV detection of such exoplanets is variability intrinsic to stars themselves, e.g. nuisance…

Detecting small planets via the radial velocity method remains challenged by signals induced by stellar variability, versus the effects of the planet(s). Here, we explore using Gaussian Process (GP) regression with Transiting Exoplanet…

Stellar activity induced by active structures (eg, spots, faculae) is known to strongly impact the radial velocity time series. It then limits the detection of small planetary RV signals (eg, an Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Simon Borgniet , Nadège Meunier , Anne-Marie Lagrange