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We generalize the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) formalism for radial velocity extraction to cases where the underlying spectral components are unknown. The method factorizes a spectroscopic time series into principal spectra and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Sahar Shahaf , Barak Zackay

Solar contamination, due to moonlight and atmospheric scattering of sunlight, can cause systematic errors in stellar radial velocity (RV) measurements that significantly detract from the ~10cm/s sensitivity required for the detection and…

Precise measurements of a star's radial velocity (RV) made using extremely stable, high resolution, optical or near infrared spectrographs can be used to determine the masses and orbital parameters of gravitationally-bound extra-solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Jennifer A. Burt , Xavier Dumusque , Samuel Halverson

Precision radial velocity (RV) measurements in the near-infrared are a powerful tool to detect and characterize exoplanets around low-mass stars or young stars with higher magnetic activity. However, the presence of strong telluric…

Radial-velocity (RV) signals induce RV variations an order of magnitude larger than the signal created by the orbit of Earth-twins, thus preventing their detection. The goal of this paper is to compare the efficiency of the different…

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

Precise radial velocity (RV) measurements are a crucial tool for exoplanet discovery and characterization. Today, the majority of these measurements are derived from Echelle spectra in the optical wavelength region using cross-correlation…

The detection of small exoplanets with the radial velocity (RV) technique is limited by various poorly known noise sources of instrumental and stellar origin. As a consequence, current detection techniques often fail to provide reliable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 S. Sulis , D. Mary , L. Bigot , M. Deleuil

The detection of planets around other stars by the measurement of the stellar Radial Velocity (RV) variations benefits from improvements of dedicated spectrographs, allowing to achieve a precision of 1 ms$^{-1}$ or better. Spectral…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 A. Ivanova , R. Lallement , J. L. Bertaux

The precise Doppler method for measuring stellar radial velocities (RV) is a fundamental technique in modern astronomy. This method records a star's spectrum and detects periodic Doppler shifts in its spectral features, which indicate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Trifon Trifonov

Stellar activity due to different processes (magnetic activity, photospheric flows) affects the measurement of radial velocities (RV). Radial velocities have been widely used to detect exoplanets, although the stellar signal significantly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Nadège Meunier

Future generations of precise radial velocity (RV) surveys aim to achieve sensitivity sufficient to detect Earth mass planets orbiting in their stars' habitable zones. A major obstacle to this goal is astrophysical radial velocity noise…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Andrew Vanderburg , Peter Plavchan , John Asher Johnson , David R. Ciardi , Jonathan Swift , Stephen R. Kane

The radial velocity (RV) method, also known as Doppler spectroscopy, is a powerful technique for exoplanet discovery and characterization. In recent years, progress has been made thanks to the improvements in the quality of spectra from new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Joseph Salzer , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Eric B. Ford , Lily L. Zhao

Precise radial velocity (PRV) surveys are important for the search of Earth analogs around nearby bright stars. Such planets induce a small stellar reflex motion with RV amplitude of $\sim$10 cm/s. Detecting such a small RV signal poses…

The radial velocity (RV) technique is a powerful tool for detecting extrasolar planets and deriving mass detection limits that are useful for constraining planet pulsations and formation models. Detection limit methods must take into…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Nadège Meunier , Anne-Marie Lagrange , Katrien De Bondt

Radial velocity (RV) is crucial for stellar kinematics and Galactic archaeology. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has obtained over ten million low-resolution spectra ($R \sim 1800$), yielding RVs for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Jinming Zhang , Haibo Yuan , Zhijia Tian

Radial velocity (RV) measurements are used to search for planets orbiting late-type main-sequence stars and confirm the transiting planets. The most advanced spectrometers are approaching a precision of $\sim 10$ cm/s that implies the need…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 A. F. Lanza , L. Gizon , T. V. Zaqarashvili , Z. -C. Liang , K. Rodenbeck

Magnetic activity strongly impacts stellar RVs and the search for small planets. We showed previously that in the solar case it induces RV variations with an amplitude over the cycle on the order of 8 m/s, with signals on short and long…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 N. Meunier , A. -M. Lagrange , S. Borgniet

The IAG solar observatory is producing high-fidelity, ultra-high-resolution spectra (R>500000) of the spatially resolved surface of the Sun using a Fourier Transform spectrometer (FTS). The radial velocity (RV) calibration of these spectra…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-16 Michael Debus , Sebastian Schäfer , Ansgar Reiners

The technique of radial velocity (RV) has produced spectacular discoveries of short-period Jovian mass objects around a fraction (5 to 10%) of nearby G stars. Although we expect Jovian planets to be located in long-period orbits of decades…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Eisner , S. R. Kulkarni
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