Density, not radius, separates rocky and water-rich small planets orbiting M dwarf stars

R Luque, E Pallé - Science, 2022 - science.org
Exoplanets smaller than Neptune are common around red dwarf stars (M dwarfs), with those
that transit their host star constituting the bulk of known temperate worlds amenable for …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Planet occurrence rates from a subsample of 71 stars

S Sabotta, M Schlecker, P Chaturvedi… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The CARMENES exoplanet survey of M dwarfs has obtained more than 18 000
spectra of 329 nearby M dwarfs over the past five years as part of its guaranteed time …

Habitability and biosignatures of Hycean worlds

N Madhusudhan, AAA Piette… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate a new class of habitable planets composed of water-rich interiors with
massive oceans underlying H 2-rich atmospheres, referred to here as Hycean worlds. With …

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

I Ribas, A Reiners, M Zechmeister… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The CARMENES instrument, installed at the 3.5 m telescope of the Calar Alto
Observatory in Almería, Spain, was conceived to deliver high-accuracy radial velocity (RV) …

Masses and compositions of three small planets orbiting the nearby M dwarf L231-32 (TOI-270) and the M dwarf radius valley

V Van Eylen, N Astudillo-Defru, X Bonfils… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We report on precise Doppler measurements of L231-32 (TOI-270), a nearby M dwarf (d= 22
pc, M⋆= 0.39 M⊙, R⋆= 0.38 R⊙), which hosts three transiting planets that were recently …

RV-detected planets around M dwarfs: Challenges for core accretion models

M Schlecker, R Burn, S Sabotta, A Seifert… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Planet formation is sensitive to the conditions in protoplanetary disks, for which
scaling laws as a function of stellar mass are known. Aims. We aim to test whether the …

A pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 characterized with CHEOPS

TG Wilson, E Goffo, Y Alibert, D Gandolfi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery and characterization of a pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-
dwarf TOI-1064 (TIC 79748331), initially detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey …

SPECULOOS: Ultracool dwarf transit survey-Target list and strategy

D Sebastian, M Gillon, E Ducrot, FJ Pozuelos… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. One of the most promising avenues for the detailed study of temperate Earth-sized
exoplanets is the detection of such planets in transit in front of stars that are small and near …

The CARMENES M-dwarf planet survey

A Quirrenbach… - Ground-based and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The CARMENES instrument consists of two cross-dispersed´ echelle spectrographs, which
together cover the wavelength range from 5,200 to 17,100˚ A. During its first five years of …

A more precise mass for GJ 1214 b and the frequency of multiplanet systems around mid-M dwarfs

R Cloutier, D Charbonneau, D Deming… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an intensive effort to refine the mass and orbit of the enveloped terrestrial planet
GJ 1214 b using 165 radial velocity (RV) measurements taken with the HARPS …