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astro-ph.SR2026

Plato benchmark stars I. The initial benchmark sample

T. Merle, P. F. L. Maxted, O. L. Creevey +22

The ESA PLATO mission aims to detect and characterise Earth-size exoplanets orbiting bright, late-type stars using high-precision photometry and asteroseismology. Precise stellar p…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Test of FeH Line Parameters using DR19 APOGEE spectra of Benchmark M Dwarfs

Anderson Silva-Andrade, Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha +9

Recent studies have suggested a mismatch of up to 0.20 dex between iron abundances derived from Fe I and FeH lines in the H-band spectra of M dwarfs, and in this work we investigat…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Probabilistic Framework for Population Studies of the Solar Neighborhood: Application to SDSS-V and Gaia

Ilija Medan, Keivan G. Stassun, Zachary Way +8

Studies of the Solar Neighborhood require spectroscopic follow-up of stars identified in astrometric surveys to fully characterize their physical properties. The SDSS-V Solar Neigh…

astro-ph.SR2025

Stellar Parameters of BOSS M dwarfs in SDSS-V DR19

Dan Qiu, Jennifer A. Johnson, Chao Liu +15

We utilized the Stellar LAbel Machine (SLAM), a data-driven model based on Support Vector Regression, to derive stellar parameters ([Fe/H], , and ) for SDSS-V…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Importance of Standardizing Spectra in the Era of Large Spectroscopic Surveys: A Case Study of M Dwarfs in SDSS-V

Ilija Medan, Zachary Way, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala +8

SDSS-V will obtain 100,000s of medium-resolution, optical spectra of M dwarfs with the BOSS instrument. M dwarfs have complex atmospheres, and their spectra contain many wide and d…

astro-ph.SR2025

Chemical Abundances of M and G Dwarfs in the Hyades and Coma Berenices Open Clusters from APOGEE Spectra

Deusalete Vilar, Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha +8

Open clusters are one of the best astrophysical laboratories we have available for stellar astrophysics studies. This work presents metallicities and individual abundances for four…

astro-ph.SR2025

Atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of young stars with APOGEE. I. Orion star-forming region

Ricardo López-Valdivia, Lucía Adame, Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga +19

We derive atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances in young G-, K-, and M-type stars (temperatures between 6500 and 3100 K) using infrared APOGEE-2 spectra. Atmospheric param…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Performance of the Stellar Abundances and atmospheric Parameters Pipeline adapted for M dwarfs I. Atmospheric parameters from the spectroscopic module

Terese Olander, Matthew R. Gent, Ulrike Heiter +12

M dwarfs are important targets in the search for Earth-like exoplanets due to their small masses and low luminosities. Several ongoing and upcoming space missions are targeting M d…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

Cool and Data-Driven: An Exploration of Optical Cool Dwarf Chemistry with Both Data-Driven and Physical Models

Adam D. Rains, Thomas Nordlander, Stephanie Monty +6

Detailed chemical studies of F/G/K -- or Solar-type -- stars have long been routine in stellar astrophysics, enabling studies in both Galactic chemodynamics, and exoplanet demograp…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

ABYSS I: Targeting strategy for APOGEE & BOSS young star survey in SDSS-V

Marina Kounkel, Eleonora Zari, Kevin Covey +15

The fifth iteration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) is set to obtain optical and near-infrared spectra of 5 million stars of all ages and masses throughout the Milky…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Twenty-five years of exoplanet discoveries: The exoplanet hosts

Bárbara Rojas-Ayala

For centuries, humanity wondered if there were other worlds like ours in the Universe. For about a quarter of a century, we have known that planetary systems exist around other sta…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

Planetesimals Around Stars with TESS (PAST): II. An M Dwarf "Dipper" Star with a Long-Lived Disk in the TESS Continuous Viewing Zone

Eric Gaidos, Andrew W. Mann, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala +6

Studies of T Tauri disks inform planet formation theory; observations of variability due to occultation by circumstellar dust are a useful probe of unresolved, planet-forming inner…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 46 cited

Detailed Chemical Abundances for a Benchmark Sample of M Dwarfs from the APOGEE Survey

Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith +16

Individual chemical abundances for fourteen elements (C, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Ni) are derived for a sample of M-dwarfs using high-resolution near-infrar…

astro-ph.SR2021

Metallicities in M dwarfs: Investigating different determination techniques

V. M. Passegger, A. Bello-García, J. Ordieres-Meré +17

Deriving metallicities for solar-like stars follows well-established methods, but for cooler stars such as M dwarfs, the determination is much more complicated due to forests of mo…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 109 cited

SWEET-Cat 2.0: The Cat just got SWEETer; Higher quality spectra and precise parallaxes from GAIA eDR3

S. G. Sousa, V. Adibekyan, E. Delgado-Mena +13

Aims. The catalog of Stars With ExoplanETs (SWEET-Cat) was originally introduced in 2013. Since then many more exoplanets have been confirmed, increasing significantly the number o…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 29 cited

Determination of spectroscopic parameters for 313 M dwarf stars from their APOGEE Data Release 16 H-band spectra

Pedro Sarmento, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala, Elisa Delgado Mena +1

The scientific community's interest on the stellar parameters of M dwarfs has been increasing over the last few years, with potential applications ranging from galactic characteriz…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 17 cited

TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two small warm planets orbiting inactive M dwarfs, found by \textit{TESS}

William C. Waalkes, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Karen A. Collins +39

We report the discovery and validation of TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two warm planets transiting inactive M dwarfs observed by \textit{TESS}. Our analysis shows TOI 122b has a radius o…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 25 cited

TOI 540 b: A Planet Smaller than Earth Orbiting a Nearby Rapidly Rotating Low-mass Star

Kristo Ment, Jonathan Irwin, David Charbonneau +20

We present the discovery of TOI 540 b, a hot planet slightly smaller than Earth orbiting the low-mass star 2MASS J05051443-4756154. The planet has an orbital period of $P = 1.23914…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 34 cited

LHS 1815b: The First Thick-Disk Planet Detected By TESS

Tianjun Gan, Avi Shporer, John H. Livingston +35

We report the first discovery of a thick-disk planet, LHS 1815b (TOI-704b, TIC 260004324), detected in the TESS survey. LHS 1815b transits a bright (V = 12.19 mag, K = 7.99 mag) an…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 54 cited

Stellar Characterization of M-dwarfs from the APOGEE Survey: A Calibrator Sample for the M-dwarf Metallicities

Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith +18

We present spectroscopic determinations of the effective temperatures, surface gravities and metallicities for 21 M-dwarfs observed at high-resolution (R 22,500) in the \tex…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 10 cited

Derivation of parameters for 3748 FGK stars using H-band spectra from APOGEE Data Release 14

Pedro Sarmento, Elisa Delgado Mena, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala +1

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has observed the H-band spectra of over 200 000 stars with . The main motivation for this work is t…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 105 cited

The First Habitable Zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. I: Validation of the TOI-700 System

Emily A. Gilbert, Thomas Barclay, Joshua E. Schlieder +92

We present the discovery and validation of a three-planet system orbiting the nearby (31.1 pc) M2 dwarf star TOI-700 (TIC 150428135). TOI-700 lies in the TESS continuous viewing zo…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 10 cited

Fundamental Parameters of 30,000 M dwarfs in LAMOST DR1 Using Data-driven Spectral Modeling

Brianna Galgano, Keivan Stassun, Barbara Rojas-Ayala

M dwarfs are the most common type of star in the Galaxy, and because of their small size are favored targets for searches of Earth-sized transiting exoplanets. Current and upcoming…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 63 cited

Catalog for the ESPRESSO blind radial velocity exoplanet survey

S. Hojjatpanah, P. Figueira, N. C. Santos +19

One of the main scientific drivers for ESPRESSO,Échelle SPectrograph, is the detection and characterization of Earth-class exoplanets. With this goal in mind, the ESPRESSO Guarante…