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most citedThe CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LTT 3780

81 citations · 178 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Near-infrared spectra of chemically peculiar stars and applications to kilonova spectra

Nanae Domoto, Masaomi Tanaka, Wako Aoki +11

Kilonova spectra provide information on rapid neutron-capture nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers. However, it remains challenging to identify individual elements in kilonova s…

astro-ph.SR2026

Revealing α-Element's Past with Subaru/IRD: Oxygen Abundance of 35 Very Metal-Poor Stars from Near-IR OH lines

Bakuh Danang Setyo Budi, Wako Aoki, Nicholas Storm +10

Oxygen abundances in very and extremely metal-poor (V/EMP) stars provide critical constraints on early massive stars' nucleosynthesis. An Oxygen abundance analysis is presented for…

astro-ph.EP2026

The mass of TOI-1883 b: A low density super-Neptune in the ridge regime transiting an early-M dwarf

Izuru Fukuda, Norio Narita, Akihiko Fukui +36

Recent large-scale transit surveys conducted by space telescopes such as Kepler and TESS have revealed a vast number of exoplanets, uncovering the diversity of their population. On…

astro-ph.SR2025

Direct Imaging Explorations for Companions from the Subaru/IRD Strategic Program II; Discovery of a Brown-dwarf Companion around a Nearby mid-M~dwarf LSPM~J1446+4633

Taichi Uyama, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Charles Beichman +35

We report the discovery of a new directly-imaged brown dwarf companion with Keck/NIRC2+pyWFS around a nearby mid-type M~dwarf LSPM~J1446+4633 (hereafter J1446). The -band contr…

astro-ph.EP2025

Sibling Sub-Neptunes Around Sibling M Dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912

G. Lacedelli, E. Pallé, R. Luque +47

Sub-Neptunes are absent in the Solar System, yet they are commonly found in our Galaxy. They challenge the internal structure models and prompt investigation on their formation, ev…

astro-ph.EP2025

The mass of TOI-654 b: A short-period sub-Neptune transiting a mid-M dwarf

Kai Ikuta, Norio Narita, Takuya Takarada +40

Sub-Neptunes are small planets between the size of the Earth and Neptune. The orbital and bulk properties of transiting sub-Neptunes can provide clues for their formation and evolu…

astro-ph.EP2025

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Revisiting the GJ 317, GJ 463, and GJ 3512 systems and two newly discovered planets orbiting GJ 9773 and GJ 508.2

J. C. Morales, I. Ribas, S. Reffert +33

Surveys for exoplanets indicate that the occurrence rate of gas giant planets orbiting late-type stars in orbits with periods shorter than 1000 days is lower than in the case of Su…

astro-ph.SR2025

Elemental abundances of 44 very metal-poor stars determined from Subaru/IRD near-infrared spectra

Wako Aoki, Timothy C. Beers, Satoshi Honda +12

Abundances of five elements, Na, Mg, Al, Si, and Sr, are investigated for 44 very metal-poor stars (-4.0 < [Fe/H] < -1.5) in the Galactic halo system based on an Local Thermodinami…

astro-ph.HE2024

Revisiting Near-Infrared Features of Kilonovae: The Importance of Gadolinium

Salma Rahmouni, Masaomi Tanaka, Nanae Domoto +7

The observation of the kilonova AT2017gfo and investigations of its light curves and spectra confirmed that neutron star mergers are sites of r-process nucleosynthesis. However, th…

astro-ph.SR2024

Weighing Single-lined Spectroscopic Binaries Using Tidal Effects on Radial Velocities: The Case of V723 Monocerotis

Mio Tomoyoshi, Kento Masuda, Teruyuki Hirano +6

In single-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB1s) where flux variations due to tidal deformation of the primary star (ellipsoidal variations, EVs) are detected, the binary mass can be…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Atmospheric retrieval of Subaru/IRD high-resolution spectrum of the archetype T-type brown dwarf Gl 229 B

Yui Kawashima, Hajime Kawahara, Yui Kasagi +14

Brown dwarfs provide a unique opportunity to study atmospheres and their physical and chemical processes with high precision, especially in temperature ranges relevant to exoplanet…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

Differentiable Modeling of Planet and Substellar Atmosphere: High-Resolution Emission, Transmission, and Reflection Spectroscopy with ExoJAX2

Hajime Kawahara, Yui Kawashima, Shotaro Tada +11

Modeling based on differentiable programming holds great promise for astronomy, enabling advanced techniques such as gradient-based posterior sampling and optimization. This paradi…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 4 cited

Spectroscopy using a visible photonic lantern at the Subaru telescope: Laboratory characterization and first on-sky demonstration on Ikiiki (α Leo) and `Aua (α Ori)

Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23

Photonic lanterns are waveguide devices enabling high throughput single mode spectroscopy and high angular resolution. We aim to present the first on-sky demonstration of a photoni…

astro-ph.IM2024

Visible Photonic Lantern integration, characterization and on-sky testing on Subaru/SCExAO

Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23

A Photonic Lantern (PL) is a novel device that efficiently converts a multi-mode fiber into several single-mode fibers. When coupled with an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system a…

astro-ph.EP2024

Three short-period Earth-sized planets around M dwarfs discovered by TESS: TOI-5720b, TOI-6008b and TOI-6086b

K. Barkaoui, R. P. Schwarz, N. Narita +53

One of the main goals of the NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission is the discovery of Earth-like planets around nearby M-dwarf stars. Here, we present the di…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 22 cited

Gliese 12 b: A temperate Earth-sized planet at 12 pc ideal for atmospheric transmission spectroscopy

M. Kuzuhara, A. Fukui, J. H. Livingston +103

Recent discoveries of Earth-sized planets transiting nearby M dwarfs have made it possible to characterize the atmospheres of terrestrial planets via follow-up spectroscopic observ…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Discovery and Follow-up of Four Transiting Short-period Sub-Neptunes Orbiting M dwarfs

Y. Hori, A. Fukui, T. Hirano +100

Sub-Neptunes with are intermediate in size between rocky planets and Neptune-sized planets. The orbital properties and bulk compositions of transiting sub-Neptunes pr…

astro-ph.EP2024

Transit Spectroscopy of K2-33b with Subaru/IRD: Spin-Orbit Alignment and Tentative Atmospheric Helium

Teruyuki Hirano, Eric Gaidos, Hiroki Harakawa +13

Exoplanets in their infancy are ideal targets to probe the formation and evolution history of planetary systems, including the planet migration and atmospheric evolution and dissip…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

Planetary companions orbiting the M dwarfs GJ 724 and GJ 3988. A CARMENES and IRD collaboration

P. Gorrini, J. Kemmer, S. Dreizler +36

We report the discovery of two exoplanets around the M dwarfs GJ 724 and GJ 3988 using the radial velocity (RV) method. We obtained a total of 153 3.5 m Calar Alto/CARMENES spectra…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

Laboratory characterization of FIRSTv2 photonic chip for the study of substellar companions

K. Barjot, E. Huby, S. Vievard +14

FIRST (Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope instrument) is a post-AO instrument that enables high contrast imaging and spectroscopy at spatial scales below the diffraction limit.…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 81 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LTT 3780

G. Nowak, R. Luque, H. Parviainen +97

We present the discovery and characterisation of two transiting planets observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) orbiting the nearby (d ~ 22 pc), bright (J ~ 9…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 7 cited

Probing the innermost dusty structure in AGN with mid-IR and near-IR interferometers

Makoto Kishimoto, Sebastian F. Hoenig, Robert Antonucci +5

With mid-IR and near-IR long-baseline interferometers, we are now mapping the radial distribution of the dusty accreting material in AGNs at sub-pc scales. We currently focus on Ty…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 46 cited

FIRST, a fibered aperture masking instrument. I. First on-sky test results

E. Huby, G. Perrin, F. Marchis +12

In this paper we present the first on-sky results with the fibered aperture masking instrument FIRST. Its principle relies on the combination of spatial filtering and aperture mask…