• DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201014704
Corpus ID: 119288366

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets - XXXI. The M-dwarf sample

@article{Bonfils2013TheHS,
  title={The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets - XXXI. The M-dwarf sample},
  author={X. Bonfils and X. Delfosse and S. Udry and T. Forveille and M. Mayor and C. Perrier and F. Bouchy and M. Gillon and C. Lovis and F. Pepe and D. Queloz and N. Santos and D. S'egransan and J. Bertaux},
  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  year={2013},
  volume={549}
}

X. Bonfils, X. Delfosse, +11 authors J. Bertaux

Published 2013

Physics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Searching for planets around stars with different masses helps us to assess the outcome of planetary formation for different initial conditions. The low-mass M dwarfs are also the most frequent stars in our Galaxy and potentially therefore, the most frequent planet hosts. Aims. We present observations of 102 southern nearby M dwarfs, using a fraction of our guaranteed time on the ESO/HARPS spectrograph. We observed for 460 h and gathered 1965 precise (~1-3 m/s) radial velocities (RVs), spanning… CONTINUE READING

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