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Stellar activity is the ultimate source of radial-velocity (RV) noise in the search for Earth-mass planets orbiting late-type main-sequence stars. We analyse the performance of four different indicators and the chromospheric index $\log…

Exoplanets can be detected with various observational techniques. Among them, radial velocity (RV) has the key advantages of revealing the architecture of planetary systems and measuring planetary mass and orbital eccentricities. RV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Nathan C. Hara , Eric B. Ford

RadVel is an open source Python package for modeling Keplerian orbits in radial velocity (RV) time series. RadVel provides a convenient framework to fit RVs using maximum a posteriori optimization and to compute robust confidence intervals…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Benjamin J. Fulton , Erik A. Petigura , Sarah Blunt , Evan Sinukoff

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

Runtime verification (RV) is a pragmatic and scalable, yet rigorous technique, to assess the correctness of complex systems, including cyber-physical systems (CPS). By measuring how robustly a CPS run satisfies a specification, RV allows in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Stefan Jaksic , Ezio Bartocci , Radu Grosu , Dejan Nickovic

We present PlanetPack, a new software tool that we developed to facilitate and standardize the advanced analysis of radial velocity (RV) data for the goal of exoplanets detection, characterization, and basic dynamical $N$-body simulations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Roman V. Baluev

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

The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is a large wide-field spectroscopic stellar survey of the Milky Way. Over the period 2003-2013, 574,630 spectra for 483,330 stars have been amassed at a resolution of R=7500 in the Ca-triplet region of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 Matthias Steinmetz

Context: The CARMENES survey is a high-precision radial velocity (RV) programme that aims to detect Earth-like planets orbiting low-mass stars. Aims: We develop least-squares fitting algorithms to derive the RVs and additional spectral…

The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) published in November 2013 its fourth data release with the stellar atmospheric parameters, abundances, distances, radial velocities, proper motions and spectral morphological flags of more than 480,000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 G. Kordopatis

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

RAVE, the RAdial Velocity Experiment, is an ambitious program to conduct a survey to measure the radial velocities, metallicities and abundance ratios for up to a million stars using the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Siebert , the RAVE collaboration

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

Many novel methods have been proposed to mitigate stellar activity for exoplanet detection as the presence of stellar activity in radial velocity (RV) measurements is the current major limitation. Unlike traditional methods that model…

The measurement of exoplanet masses using the radial velocity (RV) technique is currently limited by stellar activity, which introduces quasiperiodic variability signals that must be modeled and removed to enhance the sensitivity of the RV…

We present part 2 of the 6th and final Data Release (DR6 or FDR) of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), a magnitude-limited (9<I<12) spectroscopic survey of Galactic stars randomly selected in the southern hemisphere. The RAVE…

The effect of stellar activity on RV appears to be a limiting factor in detecting Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone of a star similar to the Sun in spectral type and activity level. It is crucial to estimate if this conclusion remain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Nadège Meunier , Anne-Marie Lagrange

RAVE (RAdial Velocity Experiment) is an ambitious program to conduct an all-sky survey (complete to V = 16) to measure the radial velocities, metallicities and abundance ratios of 50 million stars using the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthias Steinmetz