Statistical properties of exoplanets

S Udry, NC Santos - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Since the detection a decade ago of the planetary companion of 51 Peg, more than 200
extrasolar planets have been unveiled, mostly by radial-velocity measurements but also in a …

M stars as targets for terrestrial exoplanet searches and biosignature detection

J Scalo, L Kaltenegger, A Segura, M Fridlund, I Ribas… - Astrobiology, 2007 - liebertpub.com
The changing view of planets orbiting low mass stars, M stars, as potentially hospitable
worlds for life and its remote detection was motivated by several factors, including the …

How to constrain your M dwarf. II. The mass–luminosity–metallicity relation from 0.075 to 0.70 solar masses

AW Mann, T Dupuy, AL Kraus, E Gaidos… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The mass–luminosity relation for late-type stars has long been a critical tool for estimating
stellar masses. However, there is growing need for both a higher-precision relation and a …

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 …

CARMENES input catalogue of M dwarfs-V. Luminosities, colours, and spectral energy distributions

C Cifuentes, JA Caballero, M Cortés-Contreras… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The relevance of M dwarfs in the search for potentially habitable Earth-sized
planets has grown significantly in the last years. Aims. In our on-going effort to …

[HTML][HTML] The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets-XXXI. The M-dwarf sample

X Bonfils, X Delfosse, S Udry, T Forveille… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Context. Searching for planets around stars with different masses helps us to assess the
outcome of planetary formation for different initial conditions. The low-mass M dwarfs are …

New constraints on the chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood and Galactic disc (s)-Improved astrophysical parameters for the Geneva-Copenhagen Survey

L Casagrande, R Schönrich, M Asplund… - Astronomy & …, 2011 - aanda.org
We present a re-analysis of the Geneva-Copenhagen survey, which benefits from the
infrared flux method to improve the accuracy of the derived stellar effective temperatures and …

Giant planet occurrence in the stellar mass-metallicity plane

JA Johnson, KM Aller, AW Howard… - Publications of the …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Correlations between stellar properties and the occurrence rate of exoplanets can be used
to inform the target selection of future planet-search efforts and provide valuable clues about …

Friends of hot Jupiters. I. A radial velocity search for massive, long-period companions to close-in gas giant planets

HA Knutson, BJ Fulton, BT Montet, M Kao… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we search for distant massive companions to known transiting gas giant
planets that may have influenced the dynamical evolution of these systems. We present new …

SWEET-Cat: A catalogue of parameters for Stars With ExoplanETs-I. New atmospheric parameters and masses for 48 stars with planets

NC Santos, SG Sousa, A Mortier, V Neves… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Context. Thanks to the importance that the star-planet relation has to our understanding of
the planet formation process, the precise determination of stellar parameters for the ever …