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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 832, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/112
关键词
stars: activity; stars: individual (Proxima Centauri); techniques: radial velocities; techniques: spectroscopic
资金
- NASA through the Sagan Fellowship Program
- NSF [AST-1517592, AST 1006676, AST 1126413, AST 1310885]
- Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds
- Pennsylvania State University
- Eberly College of Science
- Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium
- NASA Astrobiology Institute [NNA09DA76A]
- National Science Foundation [PHY-1066293]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1126413] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
A new generation of dedicated Doppler spectrographs will attempt to detect low-mass exoplanets around mid-to late M stars at near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths, where those stars are brightest and have the most Doppler information content. A central requirement for the success of these instruments is to properly measure the component of radial velocity (RV) variability contributed by stellar magnetic activity and to account for it in exoplanet models of RV data. The wavelength coverage for many of these new instruments will not include the Ca II. H&K or H alpha. lines, the most frequently used absorption-line tracers of magnetic activity. Thus, it is necessary to define and characterize NIR activity indicators for mid-to late M stars in order to provide simultaneous activity metrics for NIR RV data. We have used the high-cadence UVES observations of the M5.5 dwarf Proxima Centauri from Fuhrmeister et al. to compare the activity sensitivity of eight NIR atomic lines to that of H alpha. We find that equivalent-width-type measurements of the NIR K I. doublet and the Ca II. NIR triplet are excellent proxies for the canonical optical tracers. The Ca II. triplet will be acquired by most of the new and upcoming NIR Doppler spectrographs, offering a common, reliable indicator of activity.
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