- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/18
- Title:
- APOGEE DR14:Binary companions of evolved stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Multi-epoch radial velocity measurements of stars can be used to identify stellar, substellar, and planetary-mass companions. Even a small number of observation epochs can be informative about companions, though there can be multiple qualitatively different orbital solutions that fit the data. We have custom-built a Monte Carlo sampler (The Joker) that delivers reliable (and often highly multimodal) posterior samplings for companion orbital parameters given sparse radial velocity data. Here we use The Joker to perform a search for companions to 96231 red giant stars observed in the APOGEE survey (DR14) with >=3 spectroscopic epochs. We select stars with probable companions by making a cut on our posterior belief about the amplitude of the variation in stellar radial velocity induced by the orbit. We provide (1) a catalog of 320 companions for which the stellar companion's properties can be confidently determined, (2) a catalog of 4898 stars that likely have companions, but would require more observations to uniquely determine the orbital properties, and (3) posterior samplings for the full orbital parameters for all stars in the parent sample. We show the characteristics of systems with confidently determined companion properties and highlight interesting systems with candidate compact object companions.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/14
- Title:
- Astrometry & radial velocity, Alpha Centauri system
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/14
- Date:
- 14 Mar 2022 06:46:54
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Alpha Centauri A is the closest solar-type star to the Sun and offers the best opportunity to find and ultimately to characterize an Earth-sized planet located in its habitable zone. Here, we describe initial results from an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) program to search for planets in the {alpha} Cen AB system using differential astrometry at millimeter wavelengths. Our initial results include new absolute astrometric measurements of the proper motion, orbital motion and parallax of the {alpha} Cen system. These lead to an improved knowledge of the physical properties of both {alpha} Cen A and B. Our estimates of ALMA's relative astrometric precision suggest that we will ultimately be sensitive to planets of a few tens of Earth mass in orbits from 1 to 3au, where stable orbits are thought to exist.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/584/A72
- Title:
- A transiting rocky planet at 6.5pc from the Sun
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/584/A72
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We know now from radial velocity surveys and transit space missions that planets only a few times more massive than our Earth are frequent around solar-type stars. Fundamental questions about their formation history, physical properties, internal structure, and atmosphere composition are, however, still to be solved. We present here the detection of a system of four low-mass planets around the bright (V=5.5) and close-by (6.5pc) star HD 219134. This is the first result of the Rocky Planet Search programme with HARPS-N on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in La Palma. The inner planet orbits the star in 3.0935+/-0.0003-days, on a quasi-circular orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.0382+/-0.0003AU. Spitzer observations allowed us to detect the transit of the planet in front of the star making HD 219134 b the nearest known transiting planet to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/543/A98
- Title:
- {beta} Gem radial velocity and photometric data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/543/A98
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Our aim is to use precise radial velocity measurements and photometric data to derive the frequency spacing of the p-mode oscillation spectrum of the planet-hosting star beta Gem. This spacing along with the interferometric radius for this star can then be used to derive an accurate stellar mass.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/542/A18
- Title:
- {beta}Pic Harps radial velocity data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/542/A18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The {beta} Pictoris system with its debris disk and a massive giant planet orbiting at ~=9AU represents an ideal laboratory for studying giant planet formation and evolution as well as planet-disk interactions. {beta} Pic b can also help in testing brightness-mass relations at young ages. Other planets, yet undetected, may of course be present in the system. We aim at directly constraining the mass of {beta} Pic b and at searching for additional jovian planets on orbits closer than typically 2AU.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/97/733
- Title:
- Binary Star Pop. with Common Proper Motion
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/97/733
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe a homogeneous catalog compilation of common proper motion stars based on GaiaDR2. A preliminary list of all pairs of stars within the radius of 100pc around the Sun with a separation less than a parsec was compiled. Also, a subset of comoving pairs, wide binary stars, was selected. The clusters and systems with multiplicity larger than 2 were excluded from consideration. The resulting catalog contains 10358 pairs of stars. The catalog selectivity function was estimated by comparison with a set of randomly selected field stars and with a model sample obtained by population synthesis. The estimates of the star masses in the catalogued objects, both components of which belong to the main-sequence, show an excess of ''twins'', composed by stars with similar masses. This excess decreases with increasing separation between components. It is shown that such an effect cannot be a consequence of the selectivity function only and does not appear in the model where star formation of similar masses is not artificially preferred. The article is based on the talk presented at the conference ''Astrometry yesterday, today, tomorrow'' (Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University, October 14 - 16, 2019).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/542/A78
- Title:
- BVRI light curves and RV curves of 65 UMa
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/542/A78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The study of stellar multiple systems provides us with important information about the stellar formation processes and can help us to estimate the multiplicity fraction in the Galaxy. 65 UMa belongs to a rather small group of stellar systems of higher multiplicity, whose inner and outer orbits are well-known. This allows us to study the long-term stability and evolution of the orbits in these systems. We obtained new photometric and spectroscopic data that when combined with interferometric data enables us to analyze the system 65 UMa and determine its basic physical properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/614/A76
- Title:
- CARMENES input catalogue of M dwarfs. III.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/614/A76
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- CARMENES is a spectrograph for radial velocity surveys of M dwarfs with the aim of detecting Earth-mass planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their host stars. To ensure an optimal use of the CARMENES guaranteed time observations, in this paper we investigate the correlation of activity and rotation for approximately 2200 M dwarfs, ranging in spectral type from M0.0 V to M9.0 V. We present new high-resolution spectroscopic observations with FEROS, CAFE, and HRS of approximately 500 M dwarfs. For each new observation, we determined its radial velocity and measured its H{alpha} activity index and its rotation velocity. Additionally, we have multiple observations of many stars to investigate if there are any radial velocity variations due to multiplicity. The results of our survey confirm that early-M dwarfs are H{alpha} inactive with low rotational velocities and that late-M dwarfs are H{alpha} active with very high rotational velocities. The results of this high-resolution analysis comprise the most extensive catalogue of rotation and activity in M dwarfs currently available.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/609/A117
- Title:
- CARMENES radial velocity curves of 7 M-dwarf
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/609/A117
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The main goal of the CARMENES survey is to find Earth-mass planets around nearby M-dwarf stars. Seven M-dwarfs included in the CARMENES sample had been observed before with HIRES and HARPS and either were reported to have one short period planetary companion (GJ 15 A, GJ 176, GJ 436, GJ 536 and GJ 1148) or are multiple planetary systems (GJ 581 and GJ 876). Aims. We aim to report new precise optical radial velocity measurements for these planet hosts and test the overall capabilities of CARMENES. We combined our CARMENES precise Doppler measurements with those available from HIRES and HARPS and derived new orbital parameters for the systems. Bona-fide single planet systems are fitted with a Keplerian model. The multiple planet systems were analyzed using a self-consistent dynamical model and their best fit orbits were tested for long-term stability. Results. We confirm or provide supportive arguments for planets around all the investigated stars except for GJ 15 A, for which we find that the post-discovery HIRES data and our CARMENES data do not show a signal at 11.4days. Although we cannot confirm the super-Earth planet GJ 15 Ab, we show evidence for a possible long-period (Pc=7025^+972^_-629_days) Saturn-mass (m_c_sini=51.8^+5.5^_-5.8_M_{Earth}_) planet around GJ 15 A. In addition, based on our CARMENES and HIRES data we discover a second planet around GJ 1148, for which we estimate a period Pc=532.6^+4.2^_-2.5_days, eccentricity e_c_=0.342^+0.050^_-0.062_ and minimum mass m_c_sini=68.1^+4.9^_-2.2_M_{Earth}_. The CARMENES optical radial velocities have similar precision and overall scatter when compared to the Doppler measurements conducted with HARPS and HIRES. We conclude that CARMENES is an instrument that is up to the challenge of discovering rocky planets around low-mass stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/652/A116
- Title:
- CARMENES time-resolved CaII H&K catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/652/A116
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radial-velocity (RV) jitter caused by stellar magnetic activity is an important factor in state-of-the-art exoplanet discovery surveys such as CARMENES. Stellar rotation, along with heterogeneities in the photosphere and chromosphere caused by activity, can result in false-positive planet detections. Hence, it is necessary to determine the stellar rotation period and compare it to any putative planetary RV signature. Long-term measurements of activity indicators such as the chromospheric emission in the CaII H&K lines enable the identification of magnetic activity cycles. In order to determine stellar rotation periods and study the long-term behavior of magnetic activity of the CARMENES guaranteed time observations (GTO) sample, it is advantageous to extract R'HK time series from archival data, since the CARMENES spectrograph does not cover the blue range of the stellar spectrum containing the Ca II H&K lines. We have assembled a catalog of 11634 archival spectra of 186 M dwarfs acquired by seven different instruments covering the CaII H&K regime: ESPADONS, FEROS, HARPS, HIRES, NARVAL, TIGRE, and UVES. The relative chromospheric flux in these lines, R'HK, was directly extracted from the spectra by rectification with PHOENIX synthetic spectra via narrow passbands around the Ca II H&K line cores. The combination of archival spectra from various instruments results in time series for 186 stars from the CARMENES GTO sample. As an example of the use of the catalog, we report the tentative discovery of three previously unknown activity cycles of M dwarfs. We conclude that the method of extracting R'HK with the use of model spectra yields consistent results for different instruments and that the compilation of this catalog will enable the analysis of long-term activity time series for a large number of M dwarfs.