scholarly journals Search for Low-Mass Planets Around Late-M Dwarfs Using IRD

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S293) ◽  
pp. 201-203
Author(s):  
Masashi Omiya ◽  
Bun'ei Sato ◽  
Hiroki Harakawa ◽  
Masayuki Kuzuhara ◽  
Teruyuki Hirano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Frequency Comb ◽  
Habitable Zone ◽  
Velocity Measurements ◽  
M Dwarfs ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Rocky Planets ◽  
Theoretical Simulations

AbstractWe have a plan to conduct a Doppler planet search for low-mass planets around nearby middle-to-late M dwarfs using IRD. IRD is the near-infrared high-precision radial velocity instrument for the Subaru 8.2-m telescope. We expect to achieve the accuracy of the radial velocity measurements of 1 m/s using IRD with a frequency comb as a wavelengh calibrator. Thus, we would detect super-Earths in habitable zone and low-mass rocky planets in close-in orbits around late-M dwarfs. In this survey, we aim to understand and discuss statistical properties of low-mass planets around low-mass M dwarfs compared with those derived from theoretical simulations.

scholarly journals Precision Radial Velocities in the Near Infrared with TEDI

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S253) ◽  
pp. 157-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Lloyd ◽  
Agnieszka Czeszumska ◽  
Jerry Edelstein ◽  
David Erskine ◽  
Michael Feuerstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Radial Velocities ◽  
Velocity Measurements ◽  
M Dwarfs ◽  
Low Mass Stars ◽  
Habitable Zones ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Transit Method

AbstractThe TEDI (TripleSpec - Exoplanet Discovery Instrument) is a dedicated instrument for the near-infrared radial velocity search for planetary companions to low-mass stars with the goal of achieving meters-per-second radial velocity precision. Heretofore, such planet searches have been limited almost entirely to the optical band and to stars that are bright in this band. Consequently, knowledge about planetary companions to the populous but visibly faint low-mass stars is limited. In addition to the opportunity afforded by precision radial velocity searches directly for planets around low mass stars, transits around the smallest M dwarfs offer a chance to detect the smallest possible planets in the habitable zones of the parent stars. As has been the the case with followup of planet candidates detected by the transit method requiring radial velocity confirmation, the capability to undertake efficient precision radial velocity measurements of mid-late M dwarfs will be required. TEDI has been commissioned on the Palomar 200” telescope in December 2007, and is currently in a science verification phase.

scholarly journals Habitable Zone Super-Earths with Non-Stabilised Spectrographs

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S293) ◽  
pp. 68-70
Author(s):  
Duncan J. Wright ◽  
Christopher G. Tinney ◽  
Robert A. Wittenmyer
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Radial Velocity ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Calibration Method ◽  
Habitable Zone ◽  
Absorption Cell ◽  
M Dwarfs ◽  
Wavelength Calibration ◽  
Atmospheric Changes ◽  
Rocky Planets

AbstractDetecting the small velocity amplitudes (≤ 10 m/s) produced by habitable zone rocky planets around M Dwarfs requires radial velocity precisions of a few m s−1. However, an iodine absorption cell, commonly used as a high precision wavelength reference on non-stabilised spectrographs, is not efficient for very red and faint objects like M Dwarfs. Instead, arc lamps have to be used. With the exception of the ultra-stabilised HARPS spectrograph, achieving ~m s−1 calibration with arc lamps has not been possible because typical spectrographs experience drifts of several hundred m s−1 due to local atmospheric changes in pressure and temperature. We outline and present results from an innovative differential wavelength calibration method that enables ~m s−1 precision from non-stabilised, high-resolution spectrographs. This technique allows the detection of rocky planets with radial velocity amplitudes of a few m s−1.

scholarly journals Multi-Wavelength High-Resolution Spectroscopy for Exoplanet Detection: Motivation, Instrumentation and First Results

Geosciences ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Benatti
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Giant Planet ◽  
High Resolution Spectroscopy ◽  
M Dwarfs ◽  
Low Mass Stars ◽  
First Results ◽  
Multi Wavelength ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Rocky Planets

Exoplanet research has shown an incessant growth since the first claim of a hot giant planet around a solar-like star in the mid-1990s. Today, the new facilities are working to spot the first habitable rocky planets around low-mass stars as a forerunner for the detection of the long-awaited Sun-Earth analog system. All the achievements in this field would not have been possible without the constant development of the technology and of new methods to detect more and more challenging planets. After the consolidation of a top-level instrumentation for high-resolution spectroscopy in the visible wavelength range, a huge effort is now dedicated to reaching the same precision and accuracy in the near-infrared. Actually, observations in this range present several advantages in the search for exoplanets around M dwarfs, known to be the most favorable targets to detect possible habitable planets. They are also characterized by intense stellar activity, which hampers planet detection, but its impact on the radial velocity modulation is mitigated in the infrared. Simultaneous observations in the visible and near-infrared ranges appear to be an even more powerful technique since they provide combined and complementary information, also useful for many other exoplanetary science cases.

scholarly journals Searching for Planetary Companions to Ultracool Dwarfs: Planet Hunting in the Near Infrared

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S253) ◽  
pp. 346-349
Author(s):  
Cullen H. Blake ◽  
David Charbonneau ◽  
David W. Latham
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Extrasolar Planets ◽  
Terrestrial Planets ◽  
Habitable Zone ◽  
Velocity Measurements ◽  
Ultracool Dwarfs

AbstractOwing to their small masses and radii, Ultracool Dwarfs (UCDs; late-M, L, and T dwarfs) may be excellent targets for planet searches and may afford astronomers the opportunity to detect terrestrial planets in the habitable zone. The precise measurements necessary to detect extrasolar planets orbiting UCDs represent a major challenge. We describe two efforts to obtain precise measurements of UCDs in the Near Infrared (NIR). The first involves the robotic NIR observatory PAIRITEL and efforts to obtain photometric precision sufficient for the detection of terrestrial planets transiting UCDs. The second effort involves precise radial velocity measurements of UCDs in the NIR and a survey undertaken with the NIRSPEC spectrograph on Keck.

scholarly journals A HIGH-PRECISION NEAR-INFRARED SURVEY FOR RADIAL VELOCITY VARIABLE LOW-MASS STARS USING CSHELL AND A METHANE GAS CELL

2016 ◽  
Vol 822 (1) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gagné ◽  
Peter Plavchan ◽  
Peter Gao ◽  
Guillem Anglada-Escude ◽  
Elise Furlan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Gas Cell ◽  
Low Mass Stars ◽  
Methane Gas ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Infrared Survey

scholarly journals Stellar Variabilities: Challenges for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S293) ◽  
pp. 388-392
Author(s):  
I. Boisse ◽  
X. Dumusque ◽  
N. C. Santos ◽  
M. Oshagh ◽  
X. Bonfils ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Parameters Estimation ◽  
Habitable Zone ◽  
M Dwarfs ◽  
Stellar Activity ◽  
Stellar Pulsation ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Magnetic Cycles ◽  
M Dwarf

AbstractThe photometric and RV techniques, although extremely efficient to detect and characterize planets, are, however, indirect techniques (as well as astrometry). Phenomena such as stellar pulsation, inhomogeneous convection, spots or magnetic cycles can prevent us from finding planets or they might degrade the parameters estimation. We will consider the challenges related to the knowledge of stellar activity for the next decade: detect telluric planets in the habitable zone of their stars (from G to M dwarfs), understand the activity in the low-mass end of M dwarf (on which will focus future near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph like SPIRou or CARMENES), limitation to the process of summing several transit observations (in order to characterize the atmospheric components) due to the variability of stellar activity (from the ground or with Spitzer or JWST), as well as the methods proposed and used to overcome this issue.

scholarly journals TOI-222: a single-transit TESS candidate revealed to be a 34-d eclipsing binary with CORALIE, EulerCam, and NGTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 492 (2) ◽  
pp. 1761-1769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Lendl ◽  
François Bouchy ◽  
Samuel Gill ◽  
Louise D Nielsen ◽  
Oliver Turner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Orbital Period ◽  
Mass Star ◽  
Mass Determination ◽  
Velocity Measurements ◽  
Eclipsing Binary ◽  
Photometric Detection ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Low Mass

ABSTRACT We report the period, eccentricity, and mass determination for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) single-transit event candidate TOI-222, which displayed a single 3000 ppm transit in the TESS 2-min cadence data from Sector 2. We determine the orbital period via radial velocity measurements (P = 33.9 d), which allowed for ground-based photometric detection of two subsequent transits. Our data show that the companion to TOI-222 is a low-mass star, with a radius of $0.18_{-0.10}^{+0.39}$ R⊙ and a mass of 0.23 ± 0.01 M⊙. This discovery showcases the ability to efficiently discover long-period systems from TESS single-transit events using a combination of radial velocity monitoring coupled with high-precision ground-based photometry.

scholarly journals Stellar noise and planet detection. I. Oscillations, granulation and sun-like spots

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S276) ◽  
pp. 527-529
Author(s):  
Xavier Dumusque ◽  
Nuno C. Santos ◽  
Stéphane Udry ◽  
Cristophe Lovis ◽  
Xavier Bonfils
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Time Scales ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Habitable Zone ◽  
Planet Detection ◽  
Solar Type ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
Instrumental Precision ◽  
Observational Strategy ◽  
Different Time Scales

AbstractSpectrographs like HARPS can now reach a sub-ms−1 precision in radial-velocity (RV) (Pepe & Lovis 2008). At this level of accuracy, we start to be confronted with stellar noise produced by 3 different physical phenomena: oscillations, granulation phenomena (granulation, meso- and super-granulation) and activity. On solar type stars, these 3 types of perturbation can induce ms−1 RV variation, but on different time scales: 3 to 15 minutes for oscillations, 15 minutes to 1.5 days for granulation phenomena and 10 to 50 days for activity. The high precision observational strategy used on HARPS, 1 measure per night of 15 minutes, on 10 consecutive days each month, is optimized, due to a long exposure time, to average out the noise coming from oscillations (Dumusque et al. 2011a) but not to reduce the noise coming from granulation and activity (Dumusque et al. 2011a and Dumusque et al. 2011b). The smallest planets found with this strategy (Mayor et al. 2009) seems to be at the limit of the actual observational strategy and not at the limit of the instrumental precision. To be able to find Earth mass planets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars (200 days for a K0 dwarf), new observational strategies, averaging out simultaneously all type of stellar noise, are required.

scholarly journals A microvariability study of nearby M dwarfs from the Western Italian Alps: Status update

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S276) ◽  
pp. 525-526
Author(s):  
Mario Damasso ◽  
Andrea Bernagozzi ◽  
Enzo Bertolini ◽  
Paolo Calcidese ◽  
Paolo Giacobbe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Italian Alps ◽  
M Dwarfs ◽  
Red Dwarfs ◽  
Typical Period ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
M Stars ◽  
Rocky Planets ◽  
Long Term Survey

AbstractSmall ground-based telescopes can effectively be used to look for transiting rocky planets around nearby low-mass M stars, as recently demonstrated for example by the MEarth project. Since December 2009 at the Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley (OAVdA) we are monitoring photometrically a sample of red dwarfs with accurate parallax measurements. The primary goal of this ‘pilot study’ is the characterization of the photometric microvariability of each target over a typical period of approximately 2 months. This is the preparatory step to long-term survey with an array of identical small telescopes, with kick-off in early 2011. Here we discuss the present status of the study, describing the stellar sample, and presenting the most interesting results obtained so far, including the aggressive data analysis devoted to the characterization of the variability properties of the sample and the search for transit-like signals.

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