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Stellar activity induces apparent radial velocity (RV) variations in late-type main-sequence stars that may hamper the detection of low-mass planets and the measurement of their mass. We use simultaneous measurements of the active planet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. F. Lanza , I. Boisse , F. Bouchy , A. S. Bonomo , C. Moutou

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

I concisely review the history, applications, and recent developments pertaining to radial velocity (RV) observations of classical pulsating stars. The focus lies on type-I (classical) Cepheids, although the historical overview and most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Richard I. Anderson

Stellar variability impacts radial velocities at various timescales and therefore the detectability of exoplanets and the mass determination based on this technique. It is necessary to implement systematic studies, to delineate the current…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Nadège Meunier , Romain Pous , Sophia Sulis , David Mary , Anne-Marie Lagrange

Under certain conditions, stellar radial velocities can be determined from astrometry, without any use of spectroscopy. This enables us to identify phenomena, other than the Doppler effect, that are displacing spectral lines. The change of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Lennart Lindegren , Dainis Dravins

The detection of exoplanets using any method is prone to confusion due to the intrinsic variability of the host star. We investigate the effect of cool starspots on the detectability of the exoplanets around solar-like stars using the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Korhonen , J. M. Andersen , N. Piskunov , T. Hackman , D. Juncher , S. P. Jarvinen , U. G. Joergensen

Stellar radial velocities play a fundamental role in the discovery of extrasolar planets and the measurement of their physical parameters as well as in the study of stellar physical properties. We investigate the impact of the solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 A. F. Lanza , P. Molaro , L. Monaco , R. D. Haywood

Stellar active regions, including spots and faculae, can create radial velocity (RV) signals that interfere with the detection and mass measurements of low mass exoplanets. In doing so, these active regions affect each spectral line…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexander Wise , Peter Plavchan , Xavier Dumusque , Heather Cegla , Duncan Wright

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

The study of multiple extrasolar planetary systems has the opportunity to obtain constraints for the planetary masses and orbital inclinations via the detection of mutual perturbations. The analysis of precise radial velocity measurements…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 András Pál

Radial velocities (RVs) measured from high-resolution stellar spectra are routinely used to detect and characterise orbiting exoplanet companions. The different lines present in stellar spectra are created by several species, which are…

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

Recent and upcoming stabilized spectrographs are pushing the frontier for Doppler spectroscopy to detect and characterize low-mass planets. Specifications for these instruments are so impressive that intrinsic stellar variability is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Christian Gilbertson , Eric B. Ford , Xavier Dumusque

Radial velocity (RV) detection of planets is hampered by astrophysical processes on the surfaces of stars that induce a stochastic signal, or "jitter", which can drown out or even mimic planetary signals. Here, we empirically and carefully…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-30 Jacob K. Luhn , Jason T. Wright , Andrew W. Howard , Howard Isaacson

Long-term stellar activity variations can affect the detectability of long-period and Earth-analogue extrasolar planets. We have, for 54 stars, analysed the long-term trend of five activity indicators: log$R'_\mathrm{{HK}}$, the…

It has been proposed that magnetic activity could be enhanced due to interactions between close-in massive planets and their host stars. In this article, I present a brief overview of the connection between stellar magnetic activity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. A. Vidotto

The detection of exoplanets with the radial velocity method consists in detecting variations of the stellar velocity caused by an unseen sub-stellar companion. Instrumental errors, irregular time sampling, and different noise sources…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 L. A. Nieto , R. F. Díaz

Stellar activity induced by active structures (eg, spots, faculae) is known to strongly impact the radial velocity time series. It then limits the detection of small planetary RV signals (eg, an Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Simon Borgniet , Nadège Meunier , Anne-Marie Lagrange

So far radial velocity (RV) measurements have discovered ~25 stars to host multiple planets. The statistics imply that many of the known hosts of transiting planets should have additional planets, yet none have been solidly detected. They…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel C. Fabrycky