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Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto

Stellar parameters of M dwarfs: investigating the star-planet connection

Cooperação Científica e Tecnológica FCT/CAPES - 2014/2015 (FCT Procº 4.4.1.00 CAPES)

Principal investigator
Elisa Delgado Mena

This study aims to address the problem of precise parameter derivation for M dwarfs. We propose to primarily focus on the spectral synthesis technique to obtain simultaneously the metallicity, effective temperature, and surface gravity of M dwarfs, as well as elemental abundances. We will then apply the obtained parameters to study the star-planet connection and search for insights regarding the planet formation and evolution around M dwarfs. This project will be developed within a collaboration framework between the EXOEarths team of Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, and Departamento de Física da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The coordinators of this project in each institute will be, respectively, Dr. Elisa Delgado Mena and Professor José Reanan de Medeiros.

Portuguese Node: CAUP
Co-PI: Elisa Delgado Mena

Brasilian Node: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Co-PI: José Renan de Medeiros

Funding institution
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Start: 1 January 2014
End: 31 December 2015


Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) is a new but long anticipated research infrastructure with a national dimension. It embodies a bold but feasible vision for the development of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Portugal, taking full advantage and fully realizing the potential created by the national membership of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO). IA resulted from the merging the two most prominent research units in the field in Portugal: the Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto (CAUP) and the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Lisbon (CAAUL). It currently hosts more than two-thirds of all active researchers working in Space Sciences in Portugal, and is responsible for an even greater fraction of the national productivity in international ISI journals in the area of Space Sciences. This is the scientific area with the highest relative impact factor (1.65 times above the international average) and the field with the highest average number of citations per article for Portugal.

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