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The census of planets around M dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood meets two challenges: detecting the best targets for the future characterisation of planets with ELTs, and studying the statistics of planet occurrence that are crucial to…

The detection of stellar variability often relies on the measurement of selected activity indicators such as coronal emission lines and non-thermal emissions. On the flip side, the effective stellar temperature is normally seen as one of…

We present new periodograms that are effective in distinguishing Doppler shift from spectral shape variability in astronomical spectra. These periodograms, building upon the concept of partial distance correlation, separate the periodic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Avraham Binnenfeld , Sahar Shahaf , Richard I. Anderson , Shay Zucker

High precision radial velocity (RV) measurements have been central in the study of exoplanets during the last two decades, from the early discovery of hot Jupiters, to the recent mass measurements of Earth-sized planets uncovered by transit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Étienne Artigau , Lison Malo , René Doyon , Pedro Figueira , Xavier Delfosse , Nicola Astudillo-Defru

High-precision astrometric and radial-velocity observations require accurate modelling of stellar motions in order to extrapolate measurements over long time intervals, and to detect deviations from uniform motion caused for example by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-22 Alexey G. Butkevich , Lennart Lindegren

In low-mass stars, the connection between magnetic activity, rotation period, and age provides key insights into the functioning of dynamos. Fully understanding the activity-rotation-age relationship requires stars with precise fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 C. Pezzotti , J. Bétrisey , G. Buldgen , M. Gilfanov , I. Bikmaev , R. Sunyaev , E. Isık , E. Gosset , N. J. Wright

Pipelines of state-of-the-art spectrographs dedicated to planet detection provide, for each exposure, series of Cross-Correlation Functions (CCFs) built with a Binary Mask (BM), and the absolute radial velocity (RV) derived from Gaussian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Jean-Loup Bertaux , Anastasiia Ivanova , Rosine Lallement

The rising demand for detecting hazardous situations has led to increased interest in radar-based human activity recognition (HAR). Conventional radar-based HAR methods predominantly rely on micro-Doppler spectrograms for recognition tasks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Do-Hyun Park , Min-Wook Jeon , Hyoung-Nam Kim

Context. Searching for extrasolar planets through radial velocity measurements relies on the stability of stellar photospheres. Aims. We aim at characterizing the statistical properties of magnetic activity cycles, and studying their impact…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-28 C. Lovis , X. Dumusque , N. C. Santos , F. Bouchy , M. Mayor , F. Pepe , D. Queloz , D. Ségransan , S. Udry

For the 451 stars of the HARPS high precision program, we study correlations between the radial-velocity (RV) variation and other parameters of the Cross Correlated Function (CCF). After a careful target selection, we found a very good…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 X. Dumusque , C. Lovis , S. Udry , N. C. Santos

Stellar activity remains a limiting factor in measuring precise planet parameters from radial velocity spectroscopy, not least in the search for Earth mass planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars. One approach to mitigate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Molly R. Kosiarek , Ian J. M. Crossfield

Stellar activity contamination of radial velocity (RV) data is one of the top challenges plaguing the field of extreme precision RV (EPRV) science. Previous work has shown that photometry can be very effective at removing such signals from…

Extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) surveys usually require extensive observational baselines to confirm planetary candidates, making them resource-intensive. Traditionally, periodograms are used to identify promising candidate signals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Anoop Gavankar , Tanish Mittal , Joe Ninan , Shravan Hanasoge

Long-term observational data have information on the magnetic cycles of active stars and that of the Sun. The changes in the activity of our central star have basic effects on Earth, like variations in the global climate. Therefore…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. Kolláth , K. Oláh

We present a deep-learning based approach for measuring small planetary radial velocities in the presence of stellar variability. We use neural networks to reduce stellar RV jitter in three years of HARPS-N sun-as-a-star spectra. We develop…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Ian Colwell , Virisha Timmaraju , Alexander Wise

The young active G-dwarf star V889 Herculis (HD 171488) shows pronounced spots in Doppler images as well as large variations in photometry and radial velocity (RV) measurements. However, the lifetime and evolution of its active regions are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. F. Huber , U. Wolter , S. Czesla , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , M. Esposito , I. Ilyin , J. N. González-Pérez

Astrometric and radial-velocity planet detections track very similar motions, and one generally expects that the statistical properties of the detections would also be similar after they are scaled to the signal-to-noise ratio of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-29 Andrew Gould

Amidst the exoplanet revolution in which multiple techniques have successfully found planets, the Doppler (Radial Velocity, or "RV") technique is unique in its sensitivity to giant planets at very long orbital periods around Sun-like stars.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Marie C. Tagliavia , Lauren M. Weiss

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

We compile a list of 121 RS CVn type stars from the bibliography in southern hemisphere, to search for activity cycles, covering a large range of luminosities and rotation periods. For each system of the list, we obtain photometric data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 C. I. Martínez , P. J. D. Mauas , A. P. Buccino