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Stellar multiplicity is correlated with many stellar properties, yet multiplicity measurements have proven difficult for the M dwarfs -- the most common type of star in our galaxy -- due to their faintness and the fact that a…

We present rotation periods for thousands of active stars in the Kepler field derived from Q3 data. In most cases a second period close to the rotation period was detected, which we interpreted as surface differential rotation (DR). Active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Timo Reinhold , Ansgar Reiners , Gibor Basri

Stars which are rapidly rotating are expected to show high levels of activity according to the activity-rotation relation. However, previous TESS studies have found Ultra Fast Rotating (UFR) M dwarfs with periods less than one day…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Lauren Doyle , Stefano Bagnulo , Gavin Ramsay , Gerry Doyle , Pasi Hakala

We discuss our high precision radial velocity results of a sample of 90 M dwarfs observed with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and the Harlan J. Smith 2.7 m Telescope at McDonald Observatory, as well as the ESO VLT and the Keck I telescopes,…

The ultrafast-rotating ($P_\mathrm{rot}\approx0.44 d$) fully convective single M4 dwarf V374 Peg is a well-known laboratory for studying intense stellar activity in a stable magnetic topology. As an observable proxy for the stellar magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 K. Vida , L. Kriskovics , K. Oláh , M. Leitzinger , P. Odert , Zs. Kővári , H. Korhonen , R. Greimel , R. Robb , B. Csák , J. Kovács

We present the first results of a multi-year program to map the orbits of M dwarf multiples within 25 parsecs. The observations were conducted primarily during 2019 - 2020 using speckle interferometry at the Southern Astrophysical Research…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Eliot Halley Vrijmoet , Andrei Tokovinin , Todd J. Henry , Jennifer G. Winters , Elliott Horch , Wei-Chun Jao

Reliable determination of Rotation-Activity Correlation (RAC's) depends on precise measurements of the following stellar parameters: $T_{eff}$, parallax, radius, metallicity, and rotational speed $v\sin i$. In this paper, our goal is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 E. R. Houdebine , D. J. Mullan , F. Paletou , M. Gebran

We study the relation between stellar rotation and magnetic activity for a sample of 134 bright, nearby M dwarfs observed in the Kepler Two-Wheel (K2) mission during campaigns C0 to C4. The K2 lightcurves yield photometrically derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 B. Stelzer , M. Damasso , A. Scholz , S. P. Matt , --

We present a catalog of 857 white dwarf (WD)-M binaries from the sixth data release (DR6) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), most of which were previously identified. For 636 of them, we complete a spectral analysis and derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 René Heller , Derek Homeier , Stefan Dreizler , Roy Østensen

We employ measurements of the [alpha/Fe] ratio derived from low-resolution (R~2000) spectra of 17,277 G-type dwarfs from the SEGUE survey to separate them into likely thin- and thick-disk subsamples. Both subsamples exhibit strong gradients…

We present our findings on the spectral analysis of seven magnetic white dwarfs that were presumed to be double degenerates. We obtained time-resolved spectroscopy at the Gemini Observatory to look for evidence of binarity or fast rotation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Adam Moss , Mukremin Kilic , P. Bergeron , Megan Firgard , Warren Brown

According to activity-rotation relations, rapid rotators are expected to show high levels of magnetic activity. However, recent studies with TESS have found Ultra Fast Rotating (UFR) M dwarfs with periods $<1$ d displaying low levels of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Lauren Doyle , George W. King , Gavin Ramsay , Lía R. Corrales , Stefano Bagnulo , J. Gerry Doyle , Pasi Hakala

[Abridged] We present a search for fast optical transients (~0.5 hr-1 day) using repeated observations of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey (PS1/MDS) fields. Our search takes advantage of the consecutive g/r-band observations (16.5 min in…

We present radial velocity measurements of a sample of M5V-M9V stars from our Red-Optical Planet Survey, ROPS, operating at 0.65-1.025 micron. Radial velocities for 15 stars, with r.m.s. precision down to 2.5 m/s over a week long time scale…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. R. Barnes , J. S. Jenkins , H. R. A. Jones , S. V. Jeffers , P. Rojo , P. Arriagada , A. Jordan , D. Minniti , M. Tuomi , D. Pinfield , G. Anglada-Escude

We present 1066 speckle measurements of M dwarf multiples observed over 2021-2024, all taken with HRCam on the Southern Astrophysical Research 4.1 m telescope. Among these, 900 observations resolve companions in 212 pairs, with separations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Eliot Halley Vrijmoet , Andrei Tokovinin , Todd J. Henry , Jennifer G. Winters , Wei-Chun Jao , Elliott Horch

High-precision space-based photometry obtained by the \emph{Kepler} and \emph{TESS} missions has revealed evidence of rotational modulation associated with main sequence (MS) A and late-B type stars. Generally, such variability in these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 James Sikora , Gregg Wade , Jason Rowe

We present paper six of the NIRSPEC Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Survey, an analysis of multi-epoch, high-resolution (R~20,000) spectra of 25 field dwarf systems (3 late-type M dwarfs, 16 L dwarfs, and 6 T dwarfs) taken with the NIRSPEC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 L. Prato , G. N. Mace , E. L. Rice , I. S. McLean , J. D. Kirkpatrick , A. J. Burgasser , S. S. Kim

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…

We present high-resolution optical spectra of 15 objects near or below the sub-stellar limit in the Upper Scorpius and $\rho$ Ophiuchus star-forming regions. These spectra, obtained with the HIRES instrument on the Keck I telescope, are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ray Jayawardhana , Subhanjoy Mohanty , Gibor Basri

Fully convective M dwarfs typically remain rapidly rotating and magnetically active for billions of years, followed by an abrupt and mass-dependent transition to slow rotation and quiescence. A robust understanding of this process is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-21 Emily K. Pass , David Charbonneau , David W. Latham , Perry Berlind , Michael L. Calkins , Gilbert A. Esquerdo , Jessica Mink