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We present preliminary results of the first and on-going radial velocity survey for circumbinary planets. With a novel radial velocity technique employing an iodine absorption cell we achieve an unprecedented RV precision of up to 2 m/s for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Maciej Konacki , Matthew W. Muterspaugh , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Krzysztof G. Hełminiak

The energy radiated by moving cracks in a discrete background is analyzed. The energy flow through a given surface is expressed in terms of a generalized Poynting vector. The velocity of the crack is determined by the radiation by the crack…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Fratini , O. Pla , P. Gonzalez , F. Guinea , E. Louis

Over the past three decades instruments on the ground and in space have discovered thousands of planets outside the solar system. These observations have given rise to an astonishingly detailed picture of the demographics of short-period…

The successful detection is reported of radial-velocity variations due to orbital motion of the substellar companion of the star tau Bootis, from data obtained with a small aperture (0.4m) telescope and a fibre-fed high-resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. G. Kaye , S. Vanaverbeke , J. Innis

Measurements of radial velocity variations from the spectroscopic monitoring of stars and their companions are essential for a broad swath of astrophysics, providing access to the fundamental physical properties that dictate all phases of…

High energy infers high velocity and high velocity is a concept of special relativity. The Maxwellian velocity distribution is corrected to be consistent with special relativity. The corrected distribution reduces to the Maxwellian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

Many potential direct imaging candidates suffer from large orbital period uncertainties, leading to challenges in accurate predictions of future orbital positions and imprecise direct imaging measurements of planetary parameters. To improve…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Zhexing Li , Stephen R. Kane , Sarah Blunt , Caleb K. Harada

High-precision radial velocity (RV) measurements are crucial for exoplanet detection and characterisation. Efforts to achieve ~10 cm/s precision have been made over the recent decades, with significant advancements in instrumentation, data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Sahar Shahaf , Barak Zackay

Exoplanet properties depend on how well the host star is characterized. For instance, the stellar atmospheric parameters (i.e., effective temperature, surface gravity and overall metallicity) are needed to derive the stellar mass and radius…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma

Many phenomena taking place in the solar photosphere are controlled by plasma motions. Although the line-of-sight component of the velocity can be estimated using the Doppler effect, we do not have direct spectroscopic access to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Asensio Ramos , I. S. Requerey , N. Vitas

About one thousand extragalactic large-scale jets are known, and a few tens of them are confirmed sources of infrared, optical, or X-ray photons. Multiwavelength emission comming directly from these outflows is always non-thermal in origin.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 L. Stawarz

The Doppler effect is commonly used to infer the velocity difference between stars based on the relative shifts in the rest-frame wavelengths of their spectral features. In dynamically-cold systems with a low velocity dispersion, such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-22 Abraham Loeb

The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES) is an environmentally stabilized, fiber-fed, $R=137,500$, optical spectrograph. It was recently commissioned at the 4.3-m Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) near Flagstaff, Arizona. The spectrograph…

We briefly review the various proposed scenarios that may lead to nonthermal radio emissions from exoplanetary systems (planetary magnetospheres, magnetosphere-ionosphere and magnetosphere-satellite coupling, and star-planet interactions),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Philippe Zarka , Di Li , Jean-Mathias Grießmeier , Laurent Lamy , Julien N. Girard , Sébastien L. G. Hess , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Gregg Hallinan

We describe a detailed radial velocity error budget for the NASA-NSF Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrometer instrument concept NEID (NN-explore Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler spectroscopy). Such an instrument performance budget is a…

One of the most promising methods of discovering nearby, low-mass planets in the habitable zones of stars is the precision radial velocity technique. However, there are many challenges that must be overcome to efficiently detect…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Michael Bottom , Philip S. Muirhead , John Asher Johnson , Cullen H. Blake

With the advent of high-resolution infrared spectrographs, Radial Velocity (RV) searches enter into a new domain. As of today, the most important technical question to address is which wavelength reference is the most suitable for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Figueira , F. Pepe , C. H. F. Melo , N. C. Santos , C. Lovis , M. Mayor , D. Queloz , A. Smette , S. Udry

The cosmic ray energy distributions contain spectral features, that is narrow energy regions where the slope of the spectrum changes rapidly. The identification and study of these features is of great importance to understand the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Paolo Lipari

Minor bodies of the solar system can be used to measure the spectrum of the Sun as a star by observing sunlight reflected by their surfaces. To perform an accurate measurement of the radial velocity of the Sun as a star by this method, it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 A. F. Lanza , P. Molaro