4 papers
Spectral Ratio Analysis: probing of a new suite of stellar activity indicators as a tool for astrophysical noise mitigation
Jean C. Costes, Christopher A. Watson, Ernst de Mooij +6
Stellar activity is the main barrier to detecting and/or confirming low-mass/long-period (and Earth-analogue) planets using radial-velocity (RV) measurements. Searching for reliabl…
Effect of surface magnetic fields on limb darkening in main-sequence stars
N. Kostogryz, A. I. Shapiro, V. Witzke +5
Context.Stellar limb darkening encodes the thermal and radiative structure of stellar photospheres and is a key ingredient in modeling transit light curves and transmission spectra…
The Curious Case of Dark Faculae on M Dwarf Stars
Alexander~I. ~Shapiro, Sara~Seager, Sami~K. ~Solanki +6
The study of exoplanet atmospheres has brought a renewed interest in stellar astrophysics. Specifically, stellar magnetic activity from the host star contaminates exoplanet atmosph…
The effect of stellar magnetic activity on measurements of morning and evening asymmetry of planetary terminator
N. Kostogryz, A. I. Shapiro, L. Carone +9
Differences in the ingress and egress shapes of transit light curves can indicate morning-evening temperature contrasts on transiting planets. Here, we pinpoint an alternative mech…