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most citedSpectrum radial velocity analyser (SERVAL). High-precision radial velocities and two alternative spectral indicators

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86 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

Improving radial velocity precision with CARMENES-PLUS:An upgrade of the near-infrared spectrograph cooling system

R. Varas, R. Calvo-Ortega, P. J. Amado +25

CARMENES is a dual-channel high-resolution spectrograph at the 3.5 m Calar Alto telescope designed to detect low-mass planets around late-type dwarfs by measuring their radial velo…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Precise radial velocities of giant stars -- XVII. Distinguishing planets from intrinsically induced radial velocity signals in evolved stars

Dane Spaeth, Sabine Reffert, Trifon Trifonov +6

From a long-term Doppler monitoring campaign of 373 giant stars, we have identified ten giants with periodic radial velocity variations that are challenging to associate with plane…

astro-ph.SR2025

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Cluster analysis of signals from spectral activity indicators to search for shared periods

J. Kemmer, M. Lafarga, B. Fuhrmeister +17

A multitude of spectral activity indicators are routinely computed nowadays from the spectra generated as part of planet-hunting radial velocity surveys. Searching for shared perio…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Occurrence rates of Earth-like planets around very low-mass stars

A. Kaminski, S. Sabotta, J. Kemmer +24

Aims: Previous estimates of planet occurrence rates in the CARMENES survey indicated increased numbers of planets on short orbits for M dwarfs with masses below 0.34\,M. He…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The impact of rotation and magnetic fields on the radial velocity jitter in cool stars

H. L. Ruh, M. Zechmeister, A. Reiners +19

Radial velocity (RV) jitter represents an intrinsic limitation on the precision of Doppler searches for exoplanets that can originate from both instrumental and astrophysical sourc…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

Non-radial oscillations mimicking a brown dwarf orbiting the cluster giant NGC 4349 No. 127

Dane Spaeth, Sabine Reffert, Emily L. Hunt +2

Several evolved stars have been found to exhibit long-period radial velocity variations that cannot be explained by planetary or brown dwarf companions. Non-radial oscillations cau…

astro-ph.EP2024

Revisiting the dynamical masses of the transiting planets in the young AU Mic system: Potential AU Mic b inflation at 20 Myr

M. Mallorquín, V. J. S. Béjar, N. Lodieu +26

Understanding planet formation is important in the context of the origin of planetary systems in general and of the Solar System in particular, as well as to predict the likelihood…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 10 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Revisiting the GJ 581 multi-planetary system with new Doppler measurements from CARMENES, HARPS, and HIRES

A. von Stauffenberg, T. Trifonov, A. Quirrenbach +18

GJ 581 is a nearby M dwarf known to host a packed multiple planet system with 2 super-Earths and a Neptune-mass planet. We present new orbital analyses of the system, utilizing rec…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Optical ray tracing of echelle spectrographs applied to the wavelength solution for precise radial velocities

Marcelo Tala Pinto, Adrian Kaminski, Andreas Quirrenbach +1

We present , a ray tracing software package that computes the path of rays through echelle spectrographs. Our algorithm is based on sequential direct tracing with Se…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 23 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Telluric absorption corrected high S/N optical and near-infrared template spectra of 382 M dwarf stars

E. Nagel, S. Czesla, A. Kaminski +22

Light from celestial objects interacts with the molecules of the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in the production of telluric absorption lines in ground-based spectral data. Correct…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

Planetary companions orbiting the M dwarfs GJ 724 and GJ 3988. A CARMENES and IRD collaboration

P. Gorrini, J. Kemmer, S. Dreizler +36

We report the discovery of two exoplanets around the M dwarfs GJ 724 and GJ 3988 using the radial velocity (RV) method. We obtained a total of 153 3.5 m Calar Alto/CARMENES spectra…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 9 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs -- A deep transfer learning method to determine Teff and [M/H] of target stars

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

The large amounts of astrophysical data being provided by existing and future instrumentation require efficient and fast analysis tools. Transfer learning is a new technique promis…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 96 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Guaranteed time observations Data Release 1 (2016-2020)

I. Ribas, A. Reiners, M. Zechmeister +102

The CARMENES instrument was conceived to deliver high-accuracy radial velocity (RV) measurements with long-term stability to search for temperate rocky planets around a sample of n…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Line-by-line sensitivity to activity in M dwarfs

M. Lafarga, I. Ribas, M. Zechmeister +17

Radial velocities (RVs) measured from high-resolution stellar spectra are routinely used to detect and characterise orbiting exoplanet companions. The different lines present in st…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 32 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs, Wolf 1069 b: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, very low-mass star

D. Kossakowski, M. Kürster, T. Trifonov +47

We present the discovery of an Earth-mass planet () on a 15.6d orbit of a relatively nearby (9.6pc) and low-mass () M…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 50 cited

Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002

A. Suárez Mascareño, E. González-Álvarez, M. R. Zapatero Osorio +42

We report the discovery and characterisation of two Earth-mass planets orbiting in the habitable zone of the nearby M-dwarf GJ~1002 based on the analysis of the radial-velocity (RV…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 18 cited

GJ 806 (TOI-4481): A bright nearby multi-planetary system with a transiting hot, low-density super-Earth

E. Palle, J. Orell-Miquel, M. Brady +63

One of the main scientific goals of the TESS mission is the discovery of transiting small planets around the closest and brightest stars in the sky. Here, using data from the CARME…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 29 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A long-period planet around GJ 1151 measured with CARMENES and HARPS-N data

J. Blanco-Pozo, M. Perger, M. Damasso +37

Detecting a planetary companion in a short-period orbit through radio emission from the interaction with its host star is a new prospect in exoplanet science. Recently, a tantalisi…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 19 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Variability on long timescales as seen in chromospheric indicators

B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla, V. Perdelwitz +19

It is clearly established that the Sun has an 11-year cycle that is caused by its internal magnetic field. This cycle is also observed in a sample of M dwarfs. In the framework of…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 36 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Stable radial-velocity variations at the rotation period of AD~Leonis -- A test case study of current limitations to treating stellar activity

D. Kossakowski, M. Kürster, Th. Henning +34

Context: A challenge with radial-velocity (RV) data is disentangling the origin of signals either due to a planetary companion or to stellar activity. In fact, the existence of a p…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 47 cited

A detailed analysis of the Gl 486 planetary system

J. A. Caballero, E. Gonzalez-Alvarez, M. Brady +64

The Gl 486 system consists of a very nearby, relatively bright, weakly active M3.5 V star at just 8 pc with a warm transiting rocky planet of about 1.3 R_Terra and 3.0 M_Terra that…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 19 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Rotational variation in activity indicators of Ross 318, YZ CMi, TYC 3529-1437-1, and EV Lac

P. Schöfer, S. V. Jeffers, A. Reiners +22

The CARMENES instrument is searching for periodic radial-velocity (RV) variations of M dwarfs, which are induced by orbiting planets. However, there are other potential sources of…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 19 cited

A quarter century of spectroscopic monitoring of the nearby M dwarf Gl 514. A super-Earth on an eccentric orbit moving in and out of the habitable zone

M. Damasso, M. Perger, J. M. Almenara +31

We investigated the presence of planetary companions around the nearby (7.6 pc) and bright ( mag) early-type M dwarf Gl 514, analysing 540 radial velocities collected over nea…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 30 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Two Saturn-mass planets orbiting active stars

A. Quirrenbach, V. M. Passegger, T. Trifonov +26

The CARMENES radial-velocity survey is currently searching for planets in a sample of 387 M dwarfs. Here we report on two Saturn-mass planets orbiting TYC 2187-512-1 ($M_\star = 0.…