The habitability of planets orbiting M-dwarf stars

AL Shields, S Ballard, JA Johnson - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The prospects for the habitability of M-dwarf planets have long been debated, due to key
differences between the unique stellar and planetary environments around these low-mass …

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 occurrence of potentially habitable planets orbiting M dwarfs estimated from the full Kepler dataset and an empirical measurement of the detection sensitivity

CD Dressing, D Charbonneau - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an improved estimate of the occurrence rate of small planets orbiting small stars
by searching the full four-year Kepler data set for transiting planets using our own planet …

Evidence for disequilibrium chemistry from vertical mixing in hot Jupiter atmospheres-A comprehensive survey of transiting close-in gas giant exoplanets with warm …

C Baxter, JM Désert, SM Tsai, KO Todorov… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We present a large atmospheric study of 49 gas giant exoplanets using infrared
transmission photometry with Spitzer/IRAC at 3.6 and 4.5 μm. Methods. We uniformly …

How to constrain your M dwarf: measuring effective temperature, bolometric luminosity, mass, and radius

AW Mann, GA Feiden, E Gaidos… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise and accurate parameters for late-type (late K and M) dwarf stars are important for
characterization of any orbiting planets, but such determinations have been hampered by …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-High-resolution optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of 324 survey stars

A Reiners, M Zechmeister, JA Caballero… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
The CARMENES radial velocity (RV) survey is observing 324 M dwarfs to search for any
orbiting planets. In this paper, we present the survey sample by publishing one CARMENES …

The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG-XIV. Investigating giant planet migration history via improved eccentricity and mass determination for 231 transiting …

AS Bonomo, S Desidera, S Benatti, F Borsa… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
We carried out a Bayesian homogeneous determination of the orbital parameters of 231
transiting giant planets (TGPs) that are alone or have distant companions; we employed …

The occurrence rate of giant planets orbiting low-mass stars with TESS

EM Bryant, D Bayliss, V Van Eylen - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a systematic search for transiting giant planets () orbiting nearby low-mass stars
(). The formation of giant planets around low-mass stars is predicted to be rare by the core …

The mass–metallicity relation for giant planets

DP Thorngren, JJ Fortney… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanet discoveries of recent years have provided a great deal of new data for studying
the bulk compositions of giant planets. Here we identify 47 transiting giant planets (20 M⊕< …

The occurrence rate of small planets around small stars

CD Dressing, D Charbonneau - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the optical and near-infrared photometry from the Kepler Input Catalog to provide
improved estimates of the stellar characteristics of the smallest stars in the Kepler target list …