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The ESA's PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (PLATO) mission aims to detect planets orbiting around dwarfs and subgiant stars with spectral type F5 or later, including M-dwarfs. The PLATO Input Catalogue (PIC) contains all targets…

Characterizing exoplanet host stars at a population level requires a method of homogeneously characterizing stellar properties across all spectral types. To this end, we have developed Metal Pipe, a new code for determining stellar…

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Context. The ESA PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars. Because of telemetry limitations, PLATO targets need to be pre-selected. Aims. In…

(Abridged) Low-mass stars have been recognised as promising targets in the search for rocky, small planets with the potential of supporting life. Doppler search programmes using high-resolution spectrographs like HARPS or HARPS-N are…

The cool temperatures of M dwarf atmospheres enable complex molecular chemistry, making robust characterization of M dwarf compositions a long-standing challenge. Recent modifications to spectral synthesis pipelines have enabled more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Aida Behmard , Melissa K. Ness , Andrew R. Casey , Ruth Angus , Katia Cunha , Diogo Souto , Yuxi , Lu , Jennifer A. Johnson

The scientific community's interest on the stellar parameters of M dwarfs has been increasing over the last few years, with potential applications ranging from galactic characterization to exoplanet detection. The main motivation for this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Pedro Sarmento , Bárbara Rojas-Ayala , Elisa Delgado Mena , Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma

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…

M dwarfs have enormous potential for our understanding of structure and formation on both Galactic and exoplanetary scales through their properties and compositions. However, current atmosphere models have limited ability to reproduce…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 Jessica Birky , David W. Hogg , Andrew W. Mann , Adam Burgasser

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

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

Context. As increasingly more spectroscopic data are being delivered by medium- and high-resolving power multi-object spectrographs, more automatic stellar parameter determination softwares are being developed. The quality of the spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-04 Helene Posbic , David Katz , Elisabetta Caffau , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Ana Gomez , Luca Sbordone , Frederic Arenou

We describe the development and implementation of the SEGUE (Sloan Extension for Galactic Exploration and Understanding) Stellar Parameter Pipeline (SSPP). The SSPP derives, using multiple techniques, radial velocities and the fundamental…

We present a model-fit pipeline to determine the stellar parameters of M-type dwarfs, which is an improvement upon our previous work described in Hejazi et al. 2020. We apply this pipeline to analyze the low-resolution (R~2000) spectra of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Neda Hejazi , Sebastien Lepine , Thomas Nordlander

In the era of vast spectroscopic surveys focusing on Galactic stellar populations, astronomers want to exploit the large quantity and good quality of data to derive their atmospheric parameters without losing precision from automatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 M. Tsantaki , D. T. Andreasen , G. D. C. Teixeira , S. G. Sousa , N. C. Santos , E. Delgado-Mena , G. Bruzual

Accurate stellar properties are essential for precise stellar astrophysics and exoplanetary science. In the M-dwarf regime, much effort has gone into defining empirical relations that can use readily accessible observables to assess…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 J. Sebastian Pineda , Allison Youngblood , Kevin France

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

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…

We validate the performance and accuracy of the current SEGUE (Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration) Stellar Parameter Pipeline (SSPP), which determines stellar atmospheric parameters (effective temperature, surface…

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