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most citedA terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri

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astro-ph.EP2022★ 13 cited

A dense mini-Neptune orbiting the bright young star HD 18599

Jose I. Vines, James S. Jenkins, Zaira Berdiñas +23

Very little is known about the young planet population because the detection of small planets orbiting young stars is obscured by the effects of stellar activity and fast rotation…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 71 cited

Monitoring the radio emission of Proxima Centauri

Miguel Pérez-Torres, José Francisco Gómez, José Luis Ortiz +15

We present results from the most comprehensive radio monitoring campaign towards the closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri. We report 1.1 to 3.1 GHz observations with the Austr…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 41 cited

A multiple planet system of super-Earths orbiting the brightest red dwarf star GJ887

S. V. Jeffers, S. Dreizler, J. R. Barnes +29

The nearest exoplanets to the Sun are our best possibilities for detailed characterization. We report the discovery of a compact multi-planet system of super-Earths orbiting the ne…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 52 cited

GJ 273: On the formation, dynamical evolution and habitability of a planetary system hosted by an M dwarf at 3.75 parsec

Francisco J. Pozuelos, Juan C. Suárez, Gonzalo C. de Elía +11

Planets orbiting low-mass stars such as M dwarfs are now considered a cornerstone in the search for life-harbouring planets. GJ273 is a planetary system orbiting an M dwarf only 3.…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 25 cited

The Magellan/PFS Exoplanet Search: A 55-day period dense Neptune transiting the bright () star HD 95338

Matías R. Díaz, James S. Jenkins, Fabo Feng +14

We report the detection of a transiting, dense Neptune planet candidate orbiting the bright () K0.5V star HD 95338. Detection of the 55-day periodic signal comes from the an…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 42 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Characterization of the nearby ultra-compact multiplanetary system YZ Ceti

S. Stock, J. Kemmer, S. Reffert +38

The nearby ultra-compact multiplanetary system YZ Ceti consists of at least three planets. The orbital period of each planet is the subject of discussion in the literature due to s…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 45 cited

Mass determinations of the three mini-Neptunes transiting TOI-125

L. D. Nielsen, D. Gandolfi, D. J. Armstrong +77

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, is currently carrying out an all-sky search for small planets transiting bright stars. In the first year of the TESS survey, steady…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 30 cited

TOI-132 b: A short-period planet in the Neptune desert transiting a G-type star

Matías R. Díaz, James S. Jenkins, Davide Gandolfi +45

The Neptune desert is a feature seen in the radius-mass-period plane, whereby a notable dearth of short period, Neptune-like planets is found. Here we report the {\it TESS} discove…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 27 cited

GJ357: A low-mass planetary system uncovered by precision radial-velocities and dynamical simulations

James S. Jenkins, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Mikko Tuomi +5

We report the detection of a new planetary system orbiting the nearby M2.5V star GJ357, using precision radial-velocities from three separate echelle spectrographs, HARPS, HiRES, a…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 130 cited

A giant exoplanet orbiting a very low-mass star challenges planet formation models

J. C. Morales, A. J. Mustill, I. Ribas +179

Statistical analyses from exoplanet surveys around low-mass stars indicate that super-Earth and Neptune-mass planets are more frequent than gas giants around such stars, in agreeme…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 64 cited

Red Dots: A temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet in a compact multi-terrestrial planet system around GJ1061

S. Dreizler, S. V., Jeffers +17

Small low-mass stars are favourable targets for the detection of rocky habitable planets. In particular, planetary systems in the solar neighbourhood are interesting and suitable f…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 25 cited

Frequency of planets orbiting M dwarfs in the Solar neighbourhood

M. Tuomi, H. R. A. Jones, R. P. Butler +14

The most abundant stars in the Galaxy, M dwarfs, are very commonly hosts to diverse systems of low-mass planets. Their abundancy implies that the general occurrence rate of planets…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 155 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two temperate Earth-mass planet candidates around Teegarden's Star

M. Zechmeister, S. Dreizler, I. Ribas +182

Context. Teegarden's Star is the brightest and one of the nearest ultra-cool dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood. For its late spectral type (M7.0V), the star shows relatively little…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 77 cited

Characterization of the L 98-59 multi-planetary system with HARPS: two confirmed terrestrial planets and a mass upper limit on the third

R. Cloutier, N. Astudillo-Defru, X. Bonfils +33

L 98-59 (TIC 307210830, TOI-175) is a nearby M3 dwarf around which TESS revealed three terrestrial-sized transiting planets (0.80, 1.35, 1.57 Earth radii) in a compact configuratio…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 142 cited

A candidate super-Earth planet orbiting near the snow line of Barnard's star

I. Ribas, M. Tuomi, A. Reiners +60

At a distance of 1.8 parsecs, Barnard's star (Gl 699) is a red dwarf with the largest apparent motion of any known stellar object. It is the closest single star to the Sun, second…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 64 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs - HD 147379b: A nearby Neptune in the temperate zone of an early-M dwarf

A. Reiners, I. Ribas, M. Zechmeister +169

We report on the first star discovered to host a planet detected by radial velocity (RV) observations obtained within the CARMENES survey for exoplanets around M dwarfs. HD 147379…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 46 cited

ALMA Discovery of Dust Belts Around Proxima Centauri

Guillem Anglada, Pedro J. Amado, Jose L. Ortiz +19

Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our Sun, is known to host at least one terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit. Here we report the ALMA detection of the star at 1.3…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 253 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: High-resolution optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of 324 survey stars

A. Reiners, M. Zechmeister, J. A. Caballero +170

The CARMENES radial velocity (RV) survey is observing 324 M dwarfs to search for any orbiting planets. In this paper, we present the survey sample by publishing one CARMENES spectr…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 156 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. First visual-channel radial-velocity measurements and orbital parameter updates of seven M-dwarf planetary systems

T. Trifonov, M. Kürster, M. Zechmeister +166

Context: The main goal of the CARMENES survey is to find Earth-mass planets around nearby M-dwarf stars. Seven M-dwarfs included in the CARMENES sample had been observed before wit…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 25 cited

High-cadence spectroscopy of M-dwarfs - II. Searching for stellar pulsations with HARPS

Zaira M. Berdiñas, Cristina Rodríguez-López, Pedro J. Amado +5

Stellar oscillations appear all across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Recent theoretical studies support their existence also in the atmospheres of M dwarfs. These studies predic…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 1.3k cited

A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri

Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Pedro J. Amado, John Barnes +28

At a distance of 1.295 parsecs, the red-dwarf Proxima Centauri ( Centauri C, GL 551, HIP 70890, or simply Proxima) is the Sun's closest stellar neighbor and one of the best stud…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 213 cited

High-cadence spectroscopy of M-dwarfs. I. Analysis of systematic effects in HARPS-N line profile measurements on the bright binary GJ 725A+B

Zaira M. Berdiñas, Pedro J. Amado, Guillem Anglada-Escudé +2

Understanding the sources of instrumental systematic noise is a must to improve the design of future spectrographs. In this study, we alternated observations of the well-suited pai…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 114 cited

Two planets around Kapteyn's star : a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red-dwarf

Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Pamela Arriagada, Mikko Tuomi +21

Exoplanets of a few Earth masses can be now detected around nearby low-mass stars using Doppler spectroscopy. In this paper, we investigate the radial velocity variations of Kaptey…