The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Guaranteed time observations Data Release 1 (2016-2020)

I Ribas, A Reiners, M Zechmeister… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The CARMENES instrument, installed at the 3.5 m telescope of the Calar Alto
Observatory in Almería, Spain, was conceived to deliver high-accuracy radial velocity (RV) …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Stellar atmospheric parameters of target stars with STEPARSYN

E Marfil, HM Tabernero, D Montes… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
We determined effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities for a sample of
343 M dwarfs observed with CARMENES, the double-channel, high-resolution spectrograph …

The CARMENES M-dwarf planet survey

A Quirrenbach… - Ground-based and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The CARMENES instrument consists of two cross-dispersed´ echelle spectrographs, which
together cover the wavelength range from 5,200 to 17,100˚ A. During its first five years of …

Metallicities in M dwarfs: Investigating different determination techniques

VM Passegger, A Bello-García, J Ordieres-Meré… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Deriving metallicities for solar-like stars follows well-established methods, but for cooler
stars such as M dwarfs, the determination is much more complicated due to forests of …

TOI-1201 b: A mini-Neptune transiting a bright and moderately young M dwarf

D Kossakowski, J Kemmer, P Bluhm, S Stock… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
We present the discovery of a transiting mini-Neptune around TOI-1201, a relatively bright
and moderately young early M dwarf (J≈ 9.5 mag,~ 600–800 Myr) in an equal-mass~ 8 …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Telluric absorption corrected high S/N optical and near-infrared template spectra of 382 M dwarf stars

E Nagel, S Czesla, A Kaminski, M Zechmeister… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Light from celestial objects interacts with the molecules of the Earth's atmosphere, resulting
in the production of telluric absorption lines in ground-based spectral data. Correcting for …

STEPARSYN: A Bayesian code to infer stellar atmospheric parameters using spectral synthesis

HM Tabernero, E Marfil, D Montes… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. STEPARSYN is an automatic code written in Python 3. X designed to infer the
stellar atmospheric parameters T eff, log g, and [Fe/H] of FGKM-type stars following the …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Convective shift and starspot constraints from chromatic radial velocities

D Baroch, JC Morales, I Ribas, E Herrero… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Variability caused by stellar activity represents a challenge to the discovery and
characterization of terrestrial exoplanets and complicates the interpretation of atmospheric …

Elemental abundances of nearby M dwarfs based on high-resolution near-infrared spectra obtained by the Subaru/IRD survey: Proof of concept

HT Ishikawa, W Aoki, T Hirano, T Kotani… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Detailed chemical analyses of M dwarfs are scarce but necessary to constrain the formation
environment and internal structure of planets being found around them. We present …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Spectroscopic orbits of nine M-dwarf multiple systems, including two triples, two brown dwarf candidates, and …

D Baroch, JC Morales, I Ribas, VJS Béjar… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. M dwarfs are ideal targets for the search of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone
using the radial velocity method, and are attracting the attention of many ongoing surveys …