Radial velocity fiber-fed spectrographs towards the discovery of compact planets and pulsations on M stars
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Modroño Berdiñas, ZairaEditorial
Universidad de Granada
Departamento
Universidad de Granada. Programa Oficial de Doctorado en: Física y Matemáticas; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Instituto de Astrofísica de AndalucíaMateria
Estrellas enanas Estrellas M Oscilaciones estelares Estrellas pulsantes Irradiancia espectral Espectroscopía Deconvolución Astrosismología Planetas extrasolares
Materia UDC
53 1200
Date
2016Fecha lectura
2016-11-25Referencia bibliográfica
Modroño Berdiñas, Z. Radial velocity fiber-fed spectrographs towards the discovery of compact planets and pulsations on M stars. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2016. [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/44879]
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Tesis Univ. Granada. Programa Oficial de Doctorado en: Física y MatemáticasRésumé
This thesis is developed in the framework of the paradigm that seeks for the
discovery of an Earth analog. Nowadays, low mass stars, and in particular
M dwarf stars, are key targets towards achieving this goal. In this thesis,
I focus on the study of the short-time domain of M dwarf stars with the
aim of searching for short period planets, but also for the first detection of
stellar pulsations on this spectral type. Both science goals are the primary
objectives of the “Cool Tiny Beats” (CTB) survey, which has produced
most of the data used in this thesis. CTB data consist in high-resolution
and high-cadence spectroscopic Doppler measurements taken either with
HARPS or HARPS-N spectrographs.