The magnetically quiet solar surface dominates HARPS-N solar RVs during low activity

BS Lakeland, T Naylor, RD Haywood… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Using images from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager aboard the Solar Dynamics
Observatory, we extract the radial velocity (RV) signal arising from the suppression of …

Connecting photometric and spectroscopic granulation signals with CHEOPS and ESPRESSO

S Sulis, M Lendl, HM Cegla, LFR Díaz, L Bigot… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Stellar granulation generates fluctuations in photometric and spectroscopic data
whose properties depend on the stellar type, composition, and evolutionary state …

Activity time series of old stars from late F to early K-VI. Exoplanet mass characterisation and detectability in radial velocity

N Meunier, R Pous, S Sulis, D Mary… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Stellar variability impacts radial velocities (hereafter RVs) at various timescales and
therefore the detectability of exoplanets and the mass determination based on this …

Scaling relations of convective granulation noise across the HR diagram from 3D stellar atmosphere models

LF Rodríguez Díaz, L Bigot… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
High-precision photometric data from space missions have improved our understanding of
stellar granulation. These observations have shown with precision the stochastic brightness …

Predicting convective blueshift and radial-velocity dispersion due to granulation for FGK stars

S Dalal, RD Haywood, A Mortier… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
To detect Earth-mass planets using the Doppler method, a major obstacle is to differentiate
the planetary signal from intrinsic stellar variability (eg pulsations, granulation, spots, and …

Semi-supervised multiple testing

D Mary, E Roquain - Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2022 - projecteuclid.org
An important limitation of standard multiple testing procedures is that the null distribution
should be known. Here, we consider a null distribution-free approach for multiple testing in …

Spatially resolved spectroscopy across stellar surfaces-V. Observational prospects: toward Earth-like exoplanet detection

D Dravins, HG Ludwig, B Freytag - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. High-precision stellar analyses require hydrodynamic 3D modeling. Testing such
models is feasible by retrieving spectral line shapes across stellar disks, using differential …

The effects of granulation and supergranulation on Earth-mass planet detectability in the habitable zone around F6-K4 stars

N Meunier, AM Lagrange - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The detectability of exoplanets and the determination of their projected mass in
radial velocity are affected by stellar magnetic activity and photospheric dynamics. Among …

Multigroup radiation magnetohydrodynamics based on discrete ordinates including compton scattering

YF Jiang - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a formulation and numerical algorithm to extend the scheme for gray radiation
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) developed by Jiang to include the frequency dependence …

Semi-supervised standardized detection of extrasolar planets

S Sulis, D Mary, L Bigot, M Deleuil - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. The detection of small exoplanets with the radial velocity (RV) technique is limited
by various poorly known noise sources of instrumental and stellar origin. As a consequence …