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M-dwarf stars are the most numerous stars in the Universe; they span a wide range in mass and are in the focus of ongoing and planned exoplanet surveys. To investigate and understand their physical nature, detailed spectral information and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Vera Maria Passegger , Sebastian Wende-von Berg , Ansgar Reiners

We present the optical spectra of 338 nearby M dwarfs, and compute their spectral types, effective temperatures ($T_{\mathrm{eff}}$), and radii. Our spectra have been obtained using several optical spectrometers with spectral resolutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Yohei Koizumi , Masayuki Kuzuhara , Masashi Omiya , Teruyuki Hirano , John Wisniewski , Wako Aoki , Bun'ei Sato

The SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a three year survey that is collecting 100,000 high-resolution spectra in the near-IR across multiple Galactic populations. To derive stellar parameters and…

The aim of the project is to define a metallicity/gravity/temperature scale vs spectral types for metal-poor M dwarfs. We obtained intermediate-resolution ultraviolet (R~3300), optical (R~5400), and near-infrared (R~3900) spectra of 43 M…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Lodieu , F. Allard , C. Rodrigo , Y. Pavlenko , A. Burgasser , Y. Lyubchik , B. Kaminsky , D. Homeier

Context. Being the most numerous and oldest stars in the galaxy, M dwarfs are objects of great interest for exoplanet searches. The presence of molecules in their atmosphere complicates our understanding of their atmospheric properties. But…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 A. S. Rajpurohit , F. Allard , S. Rajpurohit , R. Sharma , G. D. C. Teixeira , O. Mousis , R. Kamlesh

About 70-80% of stars in our solar and galactic neighborhood are M dwarfs. They span a range of low masses and temperatures relative to solar-type stars, facilitating molecule formation throughout their atmospheres. Standard stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Aishwarya R. Iyer , Michael R. Line , Philip S. Muirhead , Jonathan J. Fortney , Ehsan Gharib-Nezhad

We use moderate-resolution spectra of nearby late K and M dwarf stars with parallaxes and interferometrically determined radii to refine their effective temperatures, luminosities, and metallicities. We use these revised values to calibrate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-27 Andrew W. Mann , Eric Gaidos , Megan Ansdell

We describe advances on a method designed to derive accurate parameters of M dwarfs. Our analysis consists in comparing high-resolution infrared spectra acquired with the near-infrared spectro-polarimeter SPIRou to synthetic spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 P. I. Cristofari , J. -F. Donati , T. Masseron , P. Fouqué , C. Moutou , A. Carmona , E. Artigau , E. Martioli , G. Hébrard , E. Gaidos , X. Delfosse

Deriving metallicities for solar-like stars follows well-established methods, but for cooler stars such as M dwarfs, the determination is much more complicated due to forests of molecular lines that are present. Several methods have been…

Metallicity is a fundamental parameter that contributes to the physical characteristics of a star. However, the low temperatures and complex molecules present in M dwarf atmospheres make it difficult to measure their metallicities using…

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Low Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (LRS) provides massive spectroscopic data of M-type stars, and the derived stellar parameters could bring vital help to various…

In the search for metal-poor stars, large spectroscopic surveys are an invaluable tool. However, the spectra of metal-poor stars can be difficult to analyse because of the relative lack of available lines, which can also lead to…

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has built the largest moderately high-resolution (R=22, 500) spectroscopic map of the stars across the Milky Way, and including dust-obscured areas. The APOGEE Stellar…

New spectroscopic surveys offer the promise of consistent stellar parameters and abundances ('stellar labels') for hundreds of thousands of stars in the Milky Way: this poses a formidable spectral modeling challenge. In many cases, there is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-01 Melissa Ness , David W. Hogg , Hans-Walter Rix , Anna Y. Q. Ho , Gail Zasowski

We empirically determine effective temperatures and bolometric luminosities for a large sample of nearby M dwarfs, for which high accuracy optical and infrared photometry is available. We introduce a new technique which exploits the flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Casagrande , C. Flynn , M. Bessell

The goal of this paper is to describe the science verification of Milky Way Mapper (MWM) APOGEE Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundances Pipeline (ASPCAP) data products published in Data Release 19 (DR19) of the fifth phase of the Sloan…

We have obtained infrared (1 to 2.5 micron) spectroscopy for 42 halo and disk dwarfs with spectral type M1 to M6.5. These data are compared to synthetic spectra generated by the latest model atmospheres of Allard & Hauschildt. Photospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 S. K. Leggett , F. Allard , Conard Dahn , P. H. Hauschildt , T. H. Kerr , J. Rayner

Estimating precise metallicity of M dwarfs is a well-known difficult problem due to their complex spectra. In this work, we empirically calibrate the metallicity using wide binaries with a F, G, or K dwarf and a M dwarf companion. With 1308…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-21 Dan Qiu , Jiadong Li , Bo Zhang , Chao Liu , Haijun Tian , Zexi Niu

Context. Reliable metallicity values for M dwarfs are important for studies of the chemical evolution and advancement of planet formation theory in low-mass environments. Historically the determination of stellar parameters of low-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Sara Lindgren , Ulrike Heiter

The new CARMENES instrument comprises two high-resolution and high-stability spectrographs that are used to search for habitable planets around M dwarfs in the visible and near-infrared regime via the Doppler technique. Characterising our…