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

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astro-ph.SR2026

eROSITA's cool star population explained

J. H. M. M. Schmitt, P. C. Schneider, S. Czesla +2

The rotation-activity connection is the standard paradigm for interpreting chromospheric and coronal activity in late-type stars, namely, stars with outer convection zones. This pa…

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.SR2023★ 10 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Behaviour of the Paschen lines during flares and quiescence

B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla, J. H. M. M. Schmitt +17

The hydrogen Paschen lines are known activity indicators, but studies of them in M~dwarfs during quiescence are as rare as their reports in flare studies. This situation is mostly…

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.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.SR2021★ 17 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Diagnostic capabilities of strong K I lines for photosphere and chromosphere

B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla, E. Nagel +20

There are several strong K I lines found in the spectra of M dwarfs, among them the doublet near 7700 AA and another doublet near 12 500 AA. We study these optical and near-infrare…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 3 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Variability of the He I line at 10830 Å

B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla, L. Hildebrandt +23

The He I infrared (IR) triplet at 10830 Åis known as an activity indicator in solar-type stars and has become a primary diagnostic in exoplanetary transmission spectroscopy. He I l…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 53 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Measuring precise radial velocities in the near infrared: the example of the super-Earth CD Cet b

F. F. Bauer, M. Zechmeister, A. Kaminski +26

The high-resolution, dual channel, visible and near-infrared spectrograph CARMENES offers exciting opportunities for stellar and exoplanetary research on M dwarfs. In this work we…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 7 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The He I infrared triplet lines in PHOENIX models of M2-3 V stars

D. Hintz, B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla +25

The He I infrared (IR) line at a vacuum wavelength of 10833 A is a diagnostic for the investigation of atmospheres of stars and planets orbiting them. For the first time, we study…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 19 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A super-Earth planet orbiting HD 79211 (GJ 338 B)

E. González-Álvarez, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. A. Caballero +27

We report on radial velocity time series for two M0.0V stars, GJ338B and GJ338A, using the CARMENES spectrograph, complemented by ground-telescope photometry from Las Cumbres and S…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 90 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Radial velocities and activity indicators from cross-correlation functions with weighted binary masks

M. Lafarga, I. Ribas, C. Lovis +24

For years, the standard procedure to measure radial velocities (RVs) of spectral observations consisted in cross-correlating the spectra with a binary mask, that is, a simple stell…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 24 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Dynamical characterization of the multiple planet system GJ 1148 and prospects of habitable exomoons around GJ 1148 b

T. Trifonov, M. H. Lee, M. Kürster +29

Context. GJ 1148 is an M-dwarf star hosting a planetary system composed of two Saturn-mass planets in eccentric orbits with periods of 41.38 and 532.02 days. Aims. We reanalyze the…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 2 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The He I triplet at 10830 across the M dwarf sequence

B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla, L. Hildebrandt +24

The He I infrared (IR) triplet at 10830 AA is an important activity indicator for the Sun and in solar-type stars, however, it has rarely been studied in relation to M dwarfs to da…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 95 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs -- Photospheric parameters of target stars from high-resolution spectroscopy. II. Simultaneous multiwavelength range modeling of activity insensitive lines

V. M. Passegger, A. Schweitzer, D. Shulyak +25

We present precise photospheric parameters of 282 M dwarfs determined from fitting the most recent version of PHOENIX models to high-resolution CARMENES spectra in the visible (0.5…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 17 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs Detection of a mini-Neptune around LSPM J2116+0234 and refinement of orbital parameters of a super-Earth around GJ 686 (BD+18 3421)

S. Lalitha, D. Baroch, J. C. Morales +34

Although M dwarfs are known for high levels of stellar activity, they are ideal targets for the search of low-mass exoplanets with the radial velocity (RV) method. We report the di…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 205 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Different roads to radii and masses of the target stars

Andreas Schweitzer, V. M. Passegger, C. Cifuentes +28

We determine the radii and masses of 293 nearby, bright M dwarfs of the CARMENES survey. This is the first time that such a large and homogeneous high-resolution (R>80 000) spectro…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 16 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Chromospheric modeling of M2-3 V stars with PHOENIX

D. Hintz, B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla +26

Chromospheric modeling of observed differences in stellar activity lines is imperative to fully understand the upper atmospheres of late-type stars. We present one-dimensional para…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 39 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Period search in H, Na I D, and Ca II IRT lines

B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla, J. H. M. M. Schmitt +20

We use spectra from CARMENES, the Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exo-earths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs, to search for periods in chro…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 22 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs - The enigmatic planetary system GJ 4276: One eccentric planet or two planets in a 2:1 resonance?

E. Nagel, S. Czesla, J. H. M. M. Schmitt +25

We report the detection of a Neptune-mass exoplanet around the M4.0 dwarf GJ 4276 (G 232-070) based on radial velocity (RV) observations obtained with the CARMENES spectrograph. Th…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 37 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: The warm super-Earths in twin orbits around the mid-type M dwarfs Ross 1020 (GJ 3779) and LP 819-052 (GJ 1265)

R. Luque, G. Nowak, E. Pallé +27

We announce the discovery of two planetary companions orbiting around the low mass stars Ross 1020 (GJ 3779, M4.0V) and LP 819-052 (GJ 1265, M4.5V). The discovery is based on the a…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 25 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Wing asymmetries of H, Na I D, and He I lines

B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla, J. H. M. M. Schmitt +13

Stellar activity is ubiquitously encountered in M dwarfs and often characterised by the H line. In the most active M dwarfs, H is found in emission, sometimes with a complex…

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.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…