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We present a spectroscopic classification system for M-dwarfs and M-subdwarfs based on quantitative measures of TiO and CaH features in the region 6200 - 7400 Angstroms. Our sample of cool stars covers the range from solar metallicity stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 John E. Gizis

The consistency of the metallicity distributions of F, G and K dwarfs is studied. We present a new metallicity distribution for K dwarfs using metallicities determined from uvby photometry. There is a remarkable paucity of metal-poor K…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Rocha-Pinto , W. J. Maciel

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

M subdwarfs are low-metallicity M dwarfs that typically inhabit the halo population of the Galaxy. Metallicity controls the opacity of stellar atmospheres; in metal poor stars, hydrostatic equilibrium is reached at a smaller radius, leading…

We report the statistical properties of stars and brown dwarfs obtained from four radiation hydrodynamical simulations of star cluster formation, the metallicities of which span a range from 1/100 to 3 times the solar value. Unlike previous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-15 Matthew R. Bate

We examine the metallicity distribution of the Galactic thick disk using F, G, and K dwarf stars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Data Release 8. Using the large sample of dwarf stars with proper motions and spectroscopically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-29 Kenneth Carrell , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao

Precise and accurate parameters for late-type (late K and M) dwarf stars are important for characterization of any orbiting planets, but such determinations have been hampered by these stars' complex spectra and dissimilarity to the Sun. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Andrew W. Mann , Gregory A. Feiden , Eric Gaidos , Tabetha Boyajian , Kaspar von Braun

Interferometric radius measurements provide a direct probe of the fundamental parameters of M dwarfs, but is within reach for only a limited sample of nearby, bright stars. We use interferometrically-measured radii, bolometric luminosities,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Elisabeth R. Newton , David Charbonneau , Jonathan Irwin , Andrew W. Mann

Knowledge of the metallicities of M dwarfs rests predominantly on the photometric calibration of Bonfils and collaborators, which predicts that M dwarfs in the solar neighborhood, including those with known planets, are systematically…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 John A. Johnson , Kevin Apps

We present empirical metallicity-dependent calibrations of effective temperature against colours for dwarfs of luminosity classes IV and V and for giants of luminosity classes II and III, based on a collection from the literature of about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Yang Huang , Xiao-Wei Liu , Hai-Bo Yuan , Mao-sheng Xiang , Bing-Qiu Chen , Hua-Wei Zhang

We estimate effective temperature ($T_{\rm eff}$), stellar radius, and luminosity for a sample of 271 M-dwarf stars (M0V-M7V) observed as a part of CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exo-earths with Near-infrared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Dhrimadri Khata , Soumen Mondal , Ramkrishna Das , Tapas Baug

M dwarfs are prominent targets of planet search projects, and their chemical composition is crucial to understanding the formation process or interior of orbiting exoplanets. However, measurements of elemental abundances of M dwarfs have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-30 Hiroyuki Tako Ishikawa , Wako Aoki , Takayuki Kotani , Masayuki Kuzuhara , Masashi Omiya , Ansgar Reiners , Mathias Zechmeister

The metallicity dependence of the primary indices of the uvby photometric system for cooler dwarfs (Teff ~ 6500 K to 5000K) is investigated. The data base for the analysis is composed of the overlap between a composite catalog of selected,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. A. Twarog , L. C. Vargas , B. J. Anthony-Twarog

In order to better determine the physical properties of hot, massive stars as a function of metallicity, we obtained very high SNR optical spectra of 26 O and early B stars in the Magellanic Clouds. These allow accurate modeling even in…

In several instances chemical abundances of dwarf and giant stars are used simultaneously under the assumption that they share the same abundance scale. This assumption might have implications in different astrophysical contexts. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Letícia Dutra-Ferreira , Luca Pasquini , Rodolfo Smiljanic , Gustavo F. Porto de Mello , Matthias Steffen

We present K band spectra for 133 nearby (d < 33 parsecs) M dwarfs, including 18 M dwarfs with reliable metallicity estimates (as inferred from an FGK type companion), 11 M dwarf planet hosts, more than 2/3 of the M dwarfs in the Northern 8…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-15 Bárbara Rojas-Ayala , Kevin R. Covey , Philip S. Muirhead , James P. Lloyd

We extend the methodology introduced by Jahandar et al. (2024) to determine the effective temperature and chemical abundances of 31 slowly-rotating solar neighborhood M dwarfs (M1-M5) using high-resolution spectra from CFHT/SPIRou. This…

Comparisons between the planet populations around solar-type stars and those orbiting M dwarfs shed light on the possible dependence of planet formation and evolution on stellar mass. However, such analyses must control for other factors,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Eric Gaidos , Andrew W. Mann

We present a study of metallicities in a sample of main sequence stars with spectral types M, K, G and F ($T_{\rm eff}$ $\sim$ 3200 -- 6500K and log $g$ $\sim$ 4.3 -- 5.0 dex) belonging to the solar neighborhood young open cluster Coma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Diogo Souto , Katia Cunha , Verne Smith