The Rotation-Activity Correlations in K and M dwarfs. I. Stellar parameters, compilations of $v\sin i$ and $P/\sin i$ for a large sample of late-K and M dwarfs

Abstract

Reliable determination of Rotation-Activity Correlation (RAC's) depends on precise measurements of the following stellar parameters: $T_{eff}$, parallax, radius, metallicity, and rotational speed $v\sin i$. In this paper, our goal is to focus on the determination of these parameters for a sample of K and M dwarfs. In a future paper (Paper II), we will combine our rotational data with activity data in order to construct RAC's. Here, we report on a determination of effective temperatures based on the (R-I)${}_C$ color from the calibrations of Mann et al. (2015) and Kenyon \& Hartmann (1995) for four samples of late-K, dM2, dM3 and dM4 stars. We also determine stellar parameters ($T_{eff}$, $log(g)$ and [M/H]) using the PCA-based inversion technique for a sample of 105 late-K dwarfs. We compile all effective temperatures from the literature for this sample. We determine empirical radius-[M/H] correlations in our stellar samples. This allows us to propose new effective temperatures, stellar radii, and metallicities for a large sample of 612 late-K and M dwarfs. Our mean radii agree well with those of Boyajian et al. (2012). We analyze HARPS and SOPHIE spectra of 105 late-K dwarfs, and have detected $v\sin i$ in 92 stars. In combination with our previous $v\sin i$ measurements in M and K dwarfs, we now derive $P/sini$ measures for a sample of 418 K and M dwarfs. We investigate the distributions of $P/sini$ and we show that they are different from one spectral sub-type to another at a 99.9\% confidence level.

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