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We present new astrometric and spectroscopic data to confirm two new M/L dwarf systems, G124-62 and LHS5166, and discuss the nature of a third system (LP261-75). Age and thus mass determinations of the L dwarf companions are discussed based…

We present high-resolution echelle spectroscopy of 676 nearby M dwarfs. Our measurements include radial velocities, equivalent widths of important chromospheric emission lines, and rotational velocities for rapidly rotating stars. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 J. E. Gizis , I. N. Reid , S. L. Hawley

Hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) are core helium-burning stars located on the extreme horizontal branch. About half of the known sdB stars are found in close binaries. Their short orbital periods of 1.2 h to a few days suggest that they are post…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 V. Schaffenroth , S. Geier , U. Heber , T. Kupfer , E. Ziegerer , C. Heuser , L. Classen , O. Cordes

We report the discovery of 14 low-mass binary systems containing mid-M to mid-L dwarf companions with separations larger than 250 AU. We also report the independent discovery of 9 other systems with similar characteristics that were…

We present the results from a spectroscopic study of 1080 nearby active M dwarfs, selected by correlating the 2MASS and ROSAT catalogs. We have derived the spectral types and estimated distances for all of our stars. The spectral types…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Basmah Riaz , John E. Gizis , James Harvin

Using high-resolution spectra from the Tillinghast Reflector Echelle Spectrograph (TRES) and photometry from sector 56 of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we report that the nearby M dwarf G 68-34 is a double-lined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Emily K Pass , David Charbonneau

We investigate the magnetic activity of the G dwarf primary star in the multiple system V815 Herculis. Recently, TESS Sector 26 data have revealed that V815 Her is in fact a four-star system consisting of two close binaries in a long-period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Zsolt Kővári , Klaus G. Strassmeier , Tamás Borkovits , Levente Kriskovics , Katalin Oláh , Bálint Seli , Krisztián Vida

[Abridged] We report observations of the recently discovered, nearby late-M dwarf WISE J072003.20-084651.2. Astrometric measurements obtained with TRAPPIST improve the distance measurement to 6.0$\pm$1.0 pc and confirm the low tangential…

We identify a sample of near-equal mass wide binary M dwarf systems from the SLoWPoKES catalog of common proper-motion binaries and obtain follow-up observations of their chromospheric activity as measured by the H$\alpha$ emission line. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Heather C. Gunning , Sarah J. Schmidt , James R. A. Davenport , Saurav Dhital , Suzanne L. Hawley , Andrew A. West

Astrometric measurements are presented for seven nearby stars with previously detected planets: six M dwarfs (GJ 317, GJ 667C, GJ 581, GJ 849, GJ 876, and GJ 1214) and one K dwarf (BD $-$10 3166). Measurements are also presented for six…

Serendipitously, we have rediscovered radio emission from the binary system Ross 867 (M4.5V) and Ross 868 (M3.5V) while inspecting archival Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observations. The binary system consists of two M-dwarf stars…

We have identified two late M dwarfs within 10 parsecs of the Sun, by cross-correlating the Luyten NLTT catalogue of stars with proper motions larger than 0.18 arcsec/yr, with objects lacking optical identification in the 2MASS data base.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mark J. McCaughrean , Ralf-Dieter Scholz , Nicolas Lodieu

I report the results of a survey for low-mass (0.030 <~ M <~ 0.013 M_solar) brown dwarfs in the direction of the TW Hya association using 2MASS. Two late-M dwarfs show signs of low surface gravity and are strong candidates to be young,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 John E. Gizis

We have used the 2MASS all-sky survey and the WISE to look for ultracool dwarfs that are part of multiple systems containing main sequence stars. We cross-matched L dwarf candidates from the surveys with Hipparcos and Gliese stars, finding…

We investigate the relationship between age and chromospheric activity for 139 M dwarf stars in wide binary systems with white dwarf companions. The age of each system is determined from the cooling age of its white dwarf component. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicole M. Silvestri , Suzanne L. Hawley , Terry D. Oswalt

We present spectroscopic analysis of the low mass binary star system GJ 660.1AB, a pair of nearby M dwarfs for which we have obtained separated near-infrared spectra (0.9-2.5 $\mu$m) with the SpeX spectrograph. The spectrum of GJ 660.1B is…

We report the detections of low-mass companions to five M and L dwarfs within 10 pc of the Sun using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). Follow-up observations using the HST Advanced…

We present three new nearby L dwarf candidates, found in a continued combined color/proper motion search using WISE, 2MASS, and other survey data, where we included extended WISE sources and looked closer to the Galactic plane region. Their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-26 Ralf-Dieter Scholz , Cameron P. M. Bell

We report the discovery of two exoplanets around the M dwarfs GJ 724 and GJ 3988 using the radial velocity (RV) method. We obtained a total of 153 3.5 m Calar Alto/CARMENES spectra for both targets and measured their RVs and activity…

We have recently identified the widest very low-mass binary (2M0126AB), consisting of an M6.5V and an M8V dwarf with a separation of ~5100 AU, which is twice as large as that of the second widest known system and an order of magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Etienne Artigau , David Lafreniere , Loic Albert , Rene Doyon