Search Results - "Poppenhaeger, Katja"
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Explaining the coexistence of large-scale and small-scale magnetic fields in fully convective stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2015)“…Despite the lack of a shear-rich tachocline region low-mass fully convective stars are capable of generating strong magnetic fields, indicating that a dynamo…”
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A Chandra/LETGS Survey of Main-sequence Stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-07-2018)“…We analyze the X-ray spectra of 19 main-sequence stars observed by Chandra using its LETGS configuration. Emission measure (EM) distributions are computed…”
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The PEPSI Exoplanet Transit Survey (PETS). II. A Deep Search for Thermal Inversion Agents in KELT-20 b/MASCARA-2 b with Emission and Transmission Spectroscopy
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-04-2023)“…Abstract Recent observations have shown that the atmospheres of ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs) commonly possess temperature inversions, where the temperature…”
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Centroid vetting of transiting planet candidates from the Next Generation Transit Survey
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2017)“…Abstract The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), operating in Paranal since 2016, is a wide-field survey to detect Neptunes and super-Earths transiting…”
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How stars and planets interact: A look through the high‐energy window
Published in Astronomische Nachrichten (01-05-2019)“…The architecture of exoplanetary systems is often different from the solar system, with some exoplanets being in close orbits around their host stars and…”
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Estimating photoevaporative mass loss of exoplanets with PLATYPOS
Published in Astronomische Nachrichten (01-05-2022)“…We develop PLATYPOS (PLAneTarY PhOtoevaporation Simulator), a python code to perform planetary photoevaporative mass‐loss calculations for close‐in planets…”
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Identifying interesting planetary systems for future X‐ray observations
Published in Astronomische Nachrichten (01-05-2022)“…X‐ray observations of star–planet systems are important to grow our understanding of exoplanets; these observations allow for studies of photoevaporation of…”
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Approaching a realistic force balance in geodynamo simulations
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (25-10-2016)“…Earth sustains its magnetic field by a dynamo process driven by convection in the liquid outer core. Geodynamo simulations have been successful in reproducing…”
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The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-04-2018)“…Abstract We describe the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), which is a ground-based project searching for transiting exoplanets orbiting bright stars. NGTS…”
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Numerical quantification of the wind properties of cool main sequence stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (29-07-2023)“…ABSTRACT As a cool star evolves, it loses mass and angular momentum due to magnetized stellar winds that affect its rotational evolution. This change has…”
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Simulating the Space Weather in the AU Mic System: Stellar Winds and Extreme Coronal Mass Ejections
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2022)“…Abstract Two close-in planets have been recently found around the M-dwarf flare star AU Microscopii (AU Mic). These Neptune-sized planets (AU Mic b and c) seem…”
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Planetary perturbers: flaring star–planet interactions in Kepler and TESS
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2024)“…ABSTRACT In many star–planet systems discovered so far, the innermost planet orbits within only a few stellar radii. In these systems, planets could become in…”
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Constraining stellar tidal quality factors from planet‐induced stellar spin‐up
Published in Astronomische Nachrichten (01-06-2024)“…The dynamical evolution of tight star‐planet systems is influenced by tidal interactions between the star and the planet, as was shown recently. The rate at…”
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The first evidence of tidally induced activity in a brown dwarf-M dwarf pair: a Chandra study of the NLTT 41135/41136 system
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-10-2023)“…ABSTRACT The magnetic activity of low-mass stars changes as they age. The primary process decreasing the stellar activity level is the angular momentum loss…”
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Giant white-light flares on fully convective stars occur at high latitudes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-10-2021)“…ABSTRACT White-light flares are magnetically driven localized brightenings on the surfaces of stars. Their temporal, spectral, and statistical properties…”
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Simulated Coronal Mass Ejections on a Young Solar-type Star and the Associated Instantaneous Angular Momentum Loss
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2024)“…Abstract Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on stars can change the stars’ magnetic field configurations and mass-loss rates during the eruption and propagation and…”
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The potassium absorption on HD189733b and HD209458b
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (01-10-2019)“…ABSTRACT In this work, we investigate the potassium excess absorption around 7699 Å of the exoplanets HD189733b and HD209458b. For this purpose, we used…”
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The PEPSI exoplanet transit survey (PETS) I: investigating the presence of a silicate atmosphere on the super-earth 55 Cnc e
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2022)“…ABSTRACT The study of exoplanets and especially their atmospheres can reveal key insights on their evolution by identifying specific atmospheric species. For…”
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The PEPSI Exoplanet Transit Survey (PETS). II. A Deep Search for Thermal Inversion Agents in KELT-20 b/MASCARA-2 b with Emission and Transmission Spectroscopy Based on data acquired with the Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument (PEPSI) using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona
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The PEPSI Exoplanet Transit Survey (PETS) – IV. Assessing the atmospheric chemistry of KELT-20b
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2024)“…ABSTRACT Most ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) show evidence of temperature inversions, in which temperature increases with altitude over a range of pressures…”
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