Magnetic fields of M dwarfs

O Kochukhov - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2021 - Springer
Magnetic fields play a fundamental role for interior and atmospheric properties of M dwarfs
and greatly influence terrestrial planets orbiting in the habitable zones of these low-mass …

No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c

S Zieba, L Kreidberg, E Ducrot, M Gillon, C Morley… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Seven rocky planets orbit the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, providing a unique opportunity
to search for atmospheres on small planets outside the Solar System. Thanks to the recent …

The revised TESS input catalog and candidate target list

KG Stassun, RJ Oelkers, M Paegert… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the catalogs assembled and the algorithms used to populate the revised TESS
Input Catalog (TIC), based on the incorporation of the Gaia second data release. We also …

Refining the transit-timing and photometric analysis of TRAPPIST-1: masses, radii, densities, dynamics, and ephemerides

E Agol, C Dorn, SL Grimm, M Turbet… - The planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We have collected transit times for the TRAPPIST-1 system with the Spitzer Space
Telescope over four years. We add to these ground-based, HST, and K2 transit-time …

Breakdown of the Newton–Einstein Standard Gravity at Low Acceleration in Internal Dynamics of Wide Binary Stars

KH Chae - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A gravitational anomaly is found at weak gravitational acceleration g N≲ 10− 9 ms− 2 from
analyses of the dynamics of wide binary stars selected from the Gaia DR3 database that …

Weighing stars from birth to death: mass determination methods across the HRD

A Serenelli, A Weiss, C Aerts, GC Angelou… - The Astronomy and …, 2021 - Springer
The mass of a star is the most fundamental parameter for its structure, evolution, and final
fate. It is particularly important for any kind of stellar archaeology and characterization of …

A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf

A Vanderburg, SA Rappaport, S Xu, IJM Crossfield… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside the Solar System, most of which
orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then into white dwarfs. During the …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Planet occurrence rates from a subsample of 71 stars

S Sabotta, M Schlecker, P Chaturvedi… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The CARMENES exoplanet survey of M dwarfs has obtained more than 18 000
spectra of 329 nearby M dwarfs over the past five years as part of its guaranteed time …

The Gaia–Kepler stellar properties catalog. I. Homogeneous fundamental properties for 186,301 Kepler Stars

TA Berger, D Huber, JL Van Saders… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
An accurate and precise Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog is essential for the interpretation
of the Kepler exoplanet survey results. Previous Kepler Stellar Properties Catalogs have …

Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5-Earth-radius planet

C Piaulet, B Benneke, JM Almenara, D Dragomir… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The population of planets smaller than approximately 1.7 Earth radii (R⊕) is widely
interpreted as consisting of rocky worlds, generally referred to as super-Earths. This picture …