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A rocky planet transiting a nearby low-mass star
Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Jonathan Irwin, David Charbonneau +18
M-dwarf stars -- hydrogen-burning stars that are smaller than 60 per cent of the size of the Sun -- are the most common class of star in our Galaxy and outnumber Sun-like stars by…
The rotation and Galactic kinematics of mid M dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood
Elisabeth R. Newton, Jonathan Irwin, David Charbonneau +3
Rotation is a directly-observable stellar property, and drives magnetic field generation and activity through a magnetic dynamo. Main sequence stars with masses below approximately…
Calibration of the MEarth Photometric System: Optical Magnitudes and Photometric Metallicity Estimates for 1802 Nearby M-dwarfs
Jason A Dittmann, Jonathan M Irwin, David Charbonneau +1
The MEarth Project is a photometric survey systematically searching the smallest stars nearest to the Sun for transiting rocky planets. Since 2008, MEarth has taken approximately t…
An empirical calibration to estimate cool dwarf fundamental parameters from H-band spectra
Elisabeth R. Newton, David Charbonneau, Jonathan Irwin +1
Interferometric radius measurements provide a direct probe of the fundamental parameters of M dwarfs, but is within reach for only a limited sample of nearby, bright stars. We use…
Validation of Twelve Small Kepler Transiting Planets in the Habitable Zone
Guillermo Torres, David M. Kipping, Francois Fressin +23
We present an investigation of twelve candidate transiting planets from Kepler with orbital periods ranging from 34 to 207 days, selected from initial indications that they are sma…