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Many novel methods have been proposed to mitigate stellar activity for exoplanet detection as the presence of stellar activity in radial velocity (RV) measurements is the current major limitation. Unlike traditional methods that model…

The detection and characterisation of Earth-like planets with Doppler signals of the order of 1 m/s currently represent one of the greatest challenge for extrasolar-planet hunters. As results for such findings are often controversial, it is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 M. Damasso , F. Del Sordo

Nearly 15 years of radial velocity (RV) monitoring and direct imaging enabled the detection of two giant planets orbiting the young, nearby star $\beta$ Pictoris. The $\delta$ Scuti pulsations of the star, overwhelming planetary signals,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Thomas Vandal , Julien Rameau , René Doyon

Radial velocity (RV) follow-up is a critical complement of transiting exoplanet surveys like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ), both for validating discoveries of exoplanets and measuring their masses. Stellar activity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Christopher Lam , Megan Bedell , Lily L. Zhao , Arvind F. Gupta , Sarah A. Ballard

Observations of exoplanet atmospheres in high resolution have the potential to resolve individual planetary absorption lines, despite the issues associated with ground-based observations. The removal of contaminating stellar and telluric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Annabella Meech , Suzanne Aigrain , Matteo Brogi , Jayne Birkby

Doppler spectroscopy is a powerful tool for discovering and characterizing exoplanets. For decades, the standard approach to extracting radial velocities (RVs) has been to cross-correlate observed spectra with a weighted template mask.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Vinesh M. Rajpaul , Suzanne Aigrain , Lars A. Buchhave

Precision radial velocity (RV) measurements continue to be a key tool to detect and characterise extrasolar planets. While instrumental precision keeps improving, stellar activity remains a barrier to obtain reliable measurements below 1-2…

Stellar signals are the main limitation for precise radial-velocity (RV) measurements. These signals arise from the photosphere of the stars. The m/s perturbation created by these signals prevents the detection and mass characterization of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-25 X. Dumusque

The detection of terrestrial planets by radial velocity and photometry is hindered by the presence of stellar signals. Those are often modeled as stationary Gaussian processes, whose kernels are based on qualitative considerations, which do…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Nathan C. Hara , Jean-Baptiste Delisle

Radial-velocity (RV) planet searches are often polluted by signals caused by gas motion at the star's surface. Stellar activity can mimic or mask changes in the RVs caused by orbiting planets, resulting in false positives or missed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Anna Bortle , Hallie Fausey , Jinbiao Ji , Sarah Dodson-Robinson , Victor Ramirez Delgado , John Gizis

Radial-velocity (RV) signals induce RV variations an order of magnitude larger than the signal created by the orbit of Earth-twins, thus preventing their detection. The goal of this paper is to compare the efficiency of the different…

Empirical exoplanet mass-radius relations have been used to study the demographics and compositions of small exoplanets for many years. However, the heterogeneous nature of these measurements hinders robust statistical analysis of this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 H. L. M. Osborne , L. D. Nielsen , V. Van Eylen , O. Barragán

The study of exoplanetary atmospheres epitomises a continuous quest for higher accuracy measurements. Systematic effects and noise associated with both the stellar activity and the instrument can bias the results and thus limit the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-03 C. Danielski , T. Kacprzak , G. Tinetti , P. Jagoda

As the hunt for an Earth-like exoplanets has intensified in recent years, so has the effort to characterise and model the stellar signals that can hide or mimic small planetary signals. Stellar variability arises from a number of sources,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Niamh K. O'Sullivan , Suzanne Aigrain

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

Stellar activity is the ultimate source of radial-velocity (RV) noise in the search for Earth-mass planets orbiting late-type main-sequence stars. We analyse the performance of four different indicators and the chromospheric index $\log…

Future generations of precise radial velocity (RV) surveys aim to achieve sensitivity sufficient to detect Earth mass planets orbiting in their stars' habitable zones. A major obstacle to this goal is astrophysical radial velocity noise…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Andrew Vanderburg , Peter Plavchan , John Asher Johnson , David R. Ciardi , Jonathan Swift , Stephen R. Kane

The measurement of exoplanet masses using the radial velocity (RV) technique is currently limited by stellar activity, which introduces quasiperiodic variability signals that must be modeled and removed to enhance the sensitivity of the RV…