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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 505, Issue 1, Pages 205-215Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911976
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stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs; stars: fundamental parameters; techniques: interferometric
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- INSU
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Science Foundation
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We measured the radii of 7 low and very low-mass stars using long baseline interferometry with the VLTI interferometer and its VINCI and AMBER near-infrared recombiners. We use these new data, together with literature measurements, to examine the luminosity-radius and mass-radius relations for K and M dwarfs. The precision of the new interferometric radii now competes with what can be obtained for double-lined eclipsing binaries. Interferometry provides access to much less active stars, as well as to stars with much better measured distances and luminosities, and therefore complements the information obtained from eclipsing systems. The radii of magnetically quiet late-K to M dwarfs match the predictions of stellar evolution models very well, providing direct confirmation that magnetic activity explains the discrepancy that was recently found for magnetically active eclipsing systems. The radii of the early K dwarfs are reproduced well for a mixing length parameter that approaches the solar value, as qualitatively expected.
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