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We investigate the stellar metallicity ([Fe/H] and [M/H]) dependence of giant planets around M dwarfs by comparing the metallicity distribution of 746 field M dwarfs without known giant planets with a sample of 22 M dwarfs hosting confirmed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 Tianjun Gan , Christopher A. Theissen , Sharon X. Wang , Adam J. Burgasser , Shude Mao

The composition and internal structure of gas giant exoplanets encode key information about their formation and evolution. We investigate how different assumed interior structures affect the inferred bulk metallicity and its correlation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Lorenzo Peerani , Saburo Howard , Ravit Helled

We determine in a homogeneous way the metallicity and individual abundances of a large sample of evolved stars, with and without known planetary companions. Our methodology is based on the analysis of high-resolution echelle spectra. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Maldonado , E. Villaver , C. Eiroa

Statistical analyses of large surveys for transiting planets such as the Kepler mission must account for systematic errors and biases. Transit detection depends not only on the planet's radius and orbital period, but also on host star…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Eric Gaidos , Andrew W. Mann

Understanding the relationship between close-in small planets (CS) and distant giants (DG) is central to understanding the formation of planetary systems like our own. Most studies of this connection have found evidence for a positive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Judah Van Zandt , Erik Petigura

Discovery of only handful of exoplanets required to establish a correlation between giant planet occurrence and metallicity of their host stars. More than 20 years have already passed from that discovery, however, many questions are still…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-19 Vardan Adibekyan

Theoretical studies of giant planet formation suggest that substantial quantities of metals - elements heavier than hydrogen and helium - can be delivered by solid accretion during the envelope-assembly phase. This metal enhancement process…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Mark R. Swain , Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Daniel P. Thorngren , Gael M. Roudier

Aims. The aim of this work is the study of the planet-metallicity and the planet-stellar mass correlations for M dwarfs from the HARPS GTO M dwarf subsample Methods. We use a new method that takes advantage of the HARPS high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Neves , X. Bonfils , N. C. Santos , X. Delfosse , T. Forveille , F. Allard , S. Udry

We investigate how the statistical distribution of extrasolar planets may be combined with knowledge of the host stars' metallicity to yield constraints on the migration histories of gas giant planets. At any radius, planets that barely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. K. M. Rice , Philip J. Armitage

We present a correlation between the stellar metallicities and the mutual inclinations of multi-planet systems hosting short-period small planets (a/Rs<12, Rp<4Re). We analyzed 89 multi-planet systems discovered by Kepler, K2, and TESS,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Xinyan Hua , Sharon Xuesong Wang , Dongsheng An , Songhu Wang , Yang Huang , Dichang Chen , Johannes Buchner , Wei Zhu , Fei Dai , Jiwei Xie

Most of our current understanding of the planet formation mechanism is based on the planet metallicity correlation derived mostly from solar-type stars harbouring gas-giant planets. To achieve a far more reaching grasp on the substellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 J. Maldonado , E. Villaver , C. Eiroa , G. Micela

It is still being debated whether the well-known metallicity - giant planet correlation for dwarf stars is also valid for giant stars. For this reason, having precise metallicities is very important. Different methods can provide different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Mortier , N. C. Santos , S. G. Sousa , V. Zh. Adibekyan , E. Delgado Mena , M. Tsantaki , G. Israelian , M. Mayor

Understanding the spatial distribution of metals within galaxies allows us to study the processes of chemical enrichment and mixing in the interstellar medium (ISM). In this work, we map the two-dimensional distribution of metals using a…

The rate at which giant planets accumulate solids and gas is a critical component of planet formation models, yet it is extremely challenging to predict from first principles. Characterizing the heavy element (everything other than hydrogen…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Yayaati Chachan , Jonathan J. Fortney , Kazumasa Ohno , Daniel Thorngren , Ruth Murray-Clay

Atmospheric characterization through spectroscopic analysis, an essential tool of modern exoplanet science, can benefit significantly from the context provided by interior structure models. In particular, the planet's bulk metallicity $Z_p$…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Daniel P. Thorngren , Jonathan J. Fortney

With 40 or more transiting exoplanets now known, the time is ripe to seek patterns and correlations among their observed properties, which may give important insights into planet formation, structure, and evolution. This task is made…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guillermo Torres , Joshua N. Winn , Matthew J. Holman

Through a homogeneous analysis of spectroscopic literature data of red giant stars, we determine the radial metallicity profiles of 30 dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. We explore correlations between the calculated metallicity gradients…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 S. Taibi , G. Battaglia , R. Leaman , A. Brooks , C. Riggs , F. Munshi , Y. Revaz , P. Jablonka

Gas giants orbiting interior to the ice line are thought to have been displaced from their formation locations by processes that remain debated. Here we uncover several new metallicity trends, which together may indicate that two competing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Rebekah I. Dawson , Ruth A. Murray-Clay

The well-known correlation between stellar metallicity and planet occurrence is strongest for giant planets, but weaker for smaller planets, suggesting that detailed elemental patterns beyond [Fe/H] may be relevant. Using abundances from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 N. Sussholz , S. Zucker , R. Helled , D. Bashi

The effect of metallicity on the granulation activity in stars is still poorly understood. Available spectroscopic parameters from the updated APOGEE-\textit{Kepler} catalog, coupled with high-precision photometric observations from NASA's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 E. Corsaro , S. Mathur , R. A. García , P. Gaulme , M. Pinsonneault , K. Stassun , D. Stello , J. Tayar , R. Trampedach , C. Jiang , C. Nitschelm , D. Salabert