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Cifuentes, C.; Caballero, J. A.; Cortés-Contreras, M.; Montes, D.; Schweitzer, A.; Ribas, I.; Amado, P. J.; CARMENES Consortium
Bibliographical reference
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 16-20, 2018, in Salamanca, Spain, ISBN 978-84-09-09331-1. B. Montesinos, A. Asensio Ramos, F. Buitrago, R. Schödel, E. Villaver, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Ordóñez-Etxeberria (eds.) p. 507-507
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In the quest for Earth-sized exoplanets, M dwarfs are stars of
increasing interest during the last two decades. Their small sizes and
masses as compared to our Sun make them specially suitable targets to
look for the signatures of planetary companions, as their habitable
zones fall closer to their host star. Despite being the most abundant
stars in our Galaxy, it still exists large uncertainty about basic
physical properties of M dwarfs. In particular, determining properties
such as luminosities and effective temperatures is essential to
characterize their planetary companions, since their properties are
derived from those of their host stars. This means that the larger the
uncertainties in these fundamental stellar properties, the broader is
the span of compatible planetary compositions and parameters. CARMENES
is a next-generation spectrograph, built and operated by the homonymous
German-Spanish consortium of eleven institutions, which monitorizes
bright nearby M dwarfs using the radial velocity method. Carmencita, its
input catalog, contains dozens of parameters for about 2200 M dwarfs,
from M0.0 to M7.0, including photometric data in a broad range, from UV
to mid-infrared. These photometric date, compiled and updated for 18
broadband filters, FUV, NUV, u', B_T, B, g', V_T, G, V, r', i', J, H,
Ks, W1, W2, W3, W4, have made possible the determination of important
stellar properties using the Virtual Observatory SED Analyzer (VOSA).