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Diving Beneath the Sea of Stellar Activity: Chromatic Radial Velocities of the Young AU Mic Planetary System

Authors :
Cale, Bryson
Reefe, Michael
Plavchan, Peter
Tanner, Angelle
Gaidos, Eric
Gagné, Jonathan
Gao, Peter
Kane, Stephen R.
Béjar, Víctor J. S.
Lodieu, Nicolas
Anglada-Escudé, Guillem
Ribas, Ignasi
Pallé, Enric
Quirrenbach, Andreas
Amado, Pedro J.
Reiners, Ansgar
Caballero, José A.
Osorio, María Rosa Zapatero
Dreizler, Stefan
Howard, Andrew W.
Fulton, Benjamin J.
Wang, Sharon Xuesong
Collins, Kevin I.
Mufti, Mohammed El
Wittrock, Justin
Gilbert, Emily A.
Barclay, Thomas
Klein, Baptiste
Martioli, Eder
Wittenmyer, Robert
Wright, Duncan
Addison, Brett
Hirano, Teruyuki
Tamura, Motohide
Kotani, Takayuki
Narita, Norio
Vermilion, David
Lee, Rena A.
Geneser, Claire
Teske, Johanna
Quinn, Samuel N.
Latham, David W.
Esquerdo, Gilbert A.
Calkins, Michael L.
Berlind, Perry
Zohrabi, Farzaneh
Stibbards, Caitlin
Kotnana, Srihan
Jenkins, Jon
Twicken, Joseph D.
Henze, Christopher
Kidwell Jr., Richard
Burke, Christopher
n}or, Joel Villase{\~
Boyd, Patricia
Cale, Bryson
Reefe, Michael
Plavchan, Peter
Tanner, Angelle
Gaidos, Eric
Gagné, Jonathan
Gao, Peter
Kane, Stephen R.
Béjar, Víctor J. S.
Lodieu, Nicolas
Anglada-Escudé, Guillem
Ribas, Ignasi
Pallé, Enric
Quirrenbach, Andreas
Amado, Pedro J.
Reiners, Ansgar
Caballero, José A.
Osorio, María Rosa Zapatero
Dreizler, Stefan
Howard, Andrew W.
Fulton, Benjamin J.
Wang, Sharon Xuesong
Collins, Kevin I.
Mufti, Mohammed El
Wittrock, Justin
Gilbert, Emily A.
Barclay, Thomas
Klein, Baptiste
Martioli, Eder
Wittenmyer, Robert
Wright, Duncan
Addison, Brett
Hirano, Teruyuki
Tamura, Motohide
Kotani, Takayuki
Narita, Norio
Vermilion, David
Lee, Rena A.
Geneser, Claire
Teske, Johanna
Quinn, Samuel N.
Latham, David W.
Esquerdo, Gilbert A.
Calkins, Michael L.
Berlind, Perry
Zohrabi, Farzaneh
Stibbards, Caitlin
Kotnana, Srihan
Jenkins, Jon
Twicken, Joseph D.
Henze, Christopher
Kidwell Jr., Richard
Burke, Christopher
n}or, Joel Villase{\~
Boyd, Patricia
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

We present updated radial-velocity (RV) analyses of the AU Mic system. AU Mic is a young (22 Myr) early M dwarf known to host two transiting planets - $P_{b}\sim8.46$ days, $R_{b}=4.38_{-0.18}^{+0.18}\ R_{\oplus}$, $P_{c}\sim18.86$ days, $R_{c}=3.51_{-0.16}^{+0.16}\ R_{\oplus}$. With visible RVs from CARMENES-VIS, CHIRON, HARPS, HIRES, {\sc {\textsc{Minerva}}}-Australis, and TRES, as well as near-infrared (NIR) RVs from CARMENES-NIR, CSHELL, IRD, iSHELL, NIRSPEC, and SPIRou, we provide a $5\sigma$ upper limit to the mass of AU Mic c of $M_{c}\leq20.13\ M_{\oplus}$ and present a refined mass of AU Mic b of $M_{b}=20.12_{-1.57}^{+1.72}\ M_{\oplus}$. Used in our analyses is a new RV modeling toolkit to exploit the wavelength dependence of stellar activity present in our RVs via wavelength-dependent Gaussian processes. By obtaining near-simultaneous visible and near-infrared RVs, we also compute the temporal evolution of RV-``color'' and introduce a regressional method to aid in isolating Keplerian from stellar activity signals when modeling RVs in future works. Using a multi-wavelength Gaussian process model, we demonstrate the ability to recover injected planets at $5\sigma$ significance with semi-amplitudes down to $\approx$ 10\,m\,s$^{-1}$ with a known ephemeris, more than an order of magnitude below the stellar activity amplitude. However, we find that the accuracy of the recovered semi-amplitudes is $\sim$50\% for such signals with our model.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1312089194
Document Type :
Electronic Resource
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3847.1538-3881.ac2c80