5 papers
The Fe I 4377 Ã Line as a Solar Faculae Indicator: Insights from Spectral Ratio Analysis
Katlyn L. Hobbs, Christopher A. Watson, Jean C. Costes +21
Faculae are a dominant source of stellar activity noise in radial velocity measurements, yet their low contrast and broad surface distribution make them difficult to track in disc-…
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…
A Galactic Perspective on the (Unremarkable) Relative Refractory Depletion Observed in the Sun
Rayna Rampalli, James W. Johnson, Melissa K. Ness +5
Over the last two decades, the Sun has been observed to be depleted in refractory elements as a function of elemental condensation temperature (\tcond) relative to of it…
The Astrometric Resoeccentric Degeneracy: Eccentric Single Planets Mimic 2:1 Resonant Planet Pairs in Astrometry
Daniel A. Yahalomi, Tiger Lu, Philip J. Armitage +4
Detections of long-period giant exoplanets will expand dramatically with Gaia Data Release 4 (DR4), but interpreting these signals will require care. We derive the astrometric reso…
A constrained linear model for continuum normalization of stellar spectra
Andrew R. Casey, Adam Wheeler, Megan Bedell +3
Inferring stellar parameters and chemical abundances by forward modeling stellar spectra usually requires a spectral synthesis code, or an emulator constructed from a curated train…