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Habitability and sub glacial liquid water on planets of M-dwarf stars [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2023
A long-standing issue in astrobiology is whether planets orbiting the most abundant type of stars, M-dwarfs, can support liquid water and eventually life.
Amri Wandel
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Stellar Characterization and Radius Inflation of Hyades M-dwarf Stars from the APOGEE Survey [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We present a spectroscopic analysis of a sample of 48 M-dwarf stars (0.2 M _⊙ < M < 0.6 M _⊙ ) from the Hyades open cluster using high-resolution H -band spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment ...
Fábio Wanderley, Katia Cunha, Diogo Souto, Verne V. Smith, Lyra Cao, Marc Pinsonneault, C. Allende Prieto, Kevin Covey, Thomas Masseron, Ilaria Pascucci, Keivan G. Stassun, Ryan Terrien, Galen J. Bergsten, Dmitry Bizyaev, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Henrik Jönsson, Sten Hasselquist, Jon A. Holtzman, Richard R. Lane, Suvrath Mahadevan, Steven R. Majewski, Dante Minniti, Kaike Pan, Javier Serna, Jennifer Sobeck, Guy S. Stringfellow   +25 more
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TOI 4201 b and TOI 5344 b: Discovery of Two Transiting Giant Planets around M-dwarf Stars and Revised Parameters for Three Others [PDF]

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
We present the discovery from the TESS mission of two giant planets transiting M-dwarf stars: TOI 4201 b and TOI 5344 b. We also provide precise radial velocity measurements and updated system parameters for three other M dwarfs with transiting giant ...
J. D. Hartman, G. Á. Bakos, Z. Csubry, A. W. Howard, H. Isaacson, S. Giacalone, A. Chontos, N. Narita, A. Fukui, J. P. de Leon, N. Watanabe, M. Mori, T. Kagetani, I. Fukuda, Y. Kawai, M. Ikoma, E. Palle, F. Murgas, E. Esparza-Borges, H. Parviainen, L. G. Bouma, M. Cointepas, X. Bonfils, J. M. Almenara, Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Howard M. Relles, Khalid Barkaoui, Richard P. Schwarz, Ghachoui Mourad, Mathilde Timmermans, Georgina Dransfield, Artem Burdanov, Julien de Wit, Emmanuël Jehin, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Michaël Gillon, Zouhair Benkhaldoun, Keith Horne, Ramotholo Sefako, A. Jordán, R. Brahm, V. Suc, Steve B. Howell, E. Furlan, J. E. Schlieder, D. Ciardi, T. Barclay, E. J. Gonzales, I. Crossfield, C. D. Dressing, M. Goliguzova, A. Tatarnikov, George R. Ricker, Roland Vanderspek, David W. Latham, S. Seager, Joshua N. Winn, Jon M. Jenkins, Stephanie Striegel, Avi Shporer, Andrew Vanderburg, Alan M. Levine, Veselin B. Kostov, David Watanabe   +64 more
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K-band spectroscopic metallicities and temperatures of M-dwarf stars [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2013
I present the metallicity and effective temperature techniques developed for M dwarf stars by Rojas-Ayala et al. (2010, 2012). These techniques are based on absorption features present in the modest resolution K-band spectra (R∼2700) of M dwarfs and have
Rojas-Ayala Bárbara
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Metallicities of M Dwarf Planet Host Stars from Kepler, K2, and TESS Observed by APOGEE: Trends with Exoplanetary Radii and Orbital Periods

The Astronomical Journal
One important property in studying the exoplanet population is the host star metallicity ([M/H]). In this study, we derived stellar metallicities and oxygen abundances for 48 M dwarf stars using the near-infrared high-resolution spectra from the SDSS ...
Fábio Wanderley, Katia Cunha, Diogo Souto, Verne V. Smith, Simone Daflon   +4 more
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The SPHINX M-dwarf Spectral Grid. I. Benchmarking New Model Atmospheres to Derive Fundamental M-dwarf Properties

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
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.
Aishwarya R. Iyer, Michael R. Line, Philip S. Muirhead, Jonathan J. Fortney, Ehsan Gharib-Nezhad   +4 more
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Statistical Signatures of Nanoflare Activity. III. Evidence of Enhanced Nanoflaring Rates in Fully Convective stars as Observed by the NGTS

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Previous examinations of fully convective M-dwarf stars have highlighted enhanced rates of nanoflare activity on these distant stellar sources. However, the specific role the convective boundary, which is believed to be present for spectral types earlier
S. D. T. Grant, D. B. Jess, C. J. Dillon, M. Mathioudakis, C. A. Watson, J. A. G. Jackman, D. G. Jackson, P. J. Wheatley, M. R. Goad, S. L. Casewell, D. R. Anderson, M. R. Burleigh, R. G. West, J. I. Vines   +13 more
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Living with a Red Dwarf: X-Ray, UV, and Ca ii Activity–Age Relationships of M Dwarfs

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The vast majority of stars in the nearby stellar neighborhood are M dwarfs. Their low masses and luminosities result in slow rates of nuclear evolution and minimal changes to the stars’ observable properties, even along astronomical timescales.
Scott G. Engle
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A Massive Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-rich Early M Star Discovered in the TESS Full-frame Images

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
Observations and statistical studies have shown that giant planets are rare around M dwarfs compared with Sun-like stars. The formation mechanism of these extreme systems has remained under debate for decades. With the help of the TESS mission and ground-
Tianjun Gan, Charles Cadieux, Farbod Jahandar, Allona Vazan, Sharon X. Wang, Shude Mao, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, D. N. C. Lin, Étienne Artigau, Neil J. Cook, René Doyon, Andrew W. Mann, Keivan G. Stassun, Adam J. Burgasser, Benjamin V. Rackham, Steve B. Howell, Karen A. Collins, Khalid Barkaoui, Avi Shporer, Jerome de Leon, Luc Arnold, George R. Ricker, Roland Vanderspek, David W. Latham, Sara Seager, Joshua N. Winn, Jon M. Jenkins, Artem Burdanov, David Charbonneau, Georgina Dransfield, Akihiko Fukui, Elise Furlan, Michaël Gillon, Matthew J. Hooton, Hannah M. Lewis, Colin Littlefield, Ismael Mireles, Norio Narita, Chris W. Ormel, Samuel N. Quinn, Ramotholo Sefako, Mathilde Timmermans, Michael Vezie, Julien de Wit   +43 more
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WTS: A near-infrared transit survey

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2013
The WFCAM Transit Survey is a transiting planet survey running on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope targeting M dwarf stars in the near infrared. The survey has been operating since 2007 and gathering photometric time series of about 15000 M dwarf ...
Hodgkin Simon, Kovács Gábor, Sipőcz Brigitta, Pinfield David   +3 more
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