Publications



My ADS entries.

thesis


Precision Radial Velocity Surveys for Exoplanets
M. Zechmeister, PhD thesis, 2010 [pdf]

press releases

Exoplanets Teegarden b and c (2019-06-18):

Exoplanet Proxima b (2016-08-24):

Exoplanets Kapteyn b and c (2014-06-04):


refereed journals


2020


The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The He I infrared triplet lines in PHOENIX models of M2-3 V stars
Hintz, D., B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, A. Schweitzer, E. Nagel, E. N. Johnson, and 21 colleagues, 2020, arXiv, arXiv:2005.06246 [pdf]

A He I upper atmosphere around the warm Neptune GJ 3470b
Palle, E., L. Nortmann, N. Casasayas-Barris, M. Lampón, M. López-Puertas, J. A. Caballero, J. Sanz-Forcada, and 20 colleagues, 2020, arXiv, arXiv:2004.12812 [pdf]

Precise mass and radius of a transiting super-Earth planet orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1235: a planet in the radius gap?
Bluhm, P., R. Luque, N. Espinoza, E. Palle, J. A. Caballero, S. Dreizler, J. H. Livingston, and 74 colleagues, 2020, arXiv, arXiv:2004.06218 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Characterization of the nearby ultra-compact multiplanetary system YZ Ceti
Stock, S., J. Kemmer, S. Reffert, T. Trifonov, A. Kaminski, S. Dreizler, A. Quirrenbach, and 34 colleagues, 2020, A&A, 636, A119 [pdf]

Public HARPS radial velocity database corrected for systematic errors
Trifonov, T., L. Tal-Or, M. Zechmeister, A. Kaminski, S. Zucker, and T. Mazeh, 2020, A&A, 636, A74 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Radial velocities and activity indicators from cross-correlation functions with weighted binary masks
Lafarga, M., I. Ribas, C. Lovis, M. Perger, M. Zechmeister, F. F. Bauer, M. Kürster, and 20 colleagues, 2020, A&A, 636, A36 [pdf]

RedDots: a temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet candidate in a compact multiterrestrial planet system around GJ 1061
Dreizler, S., S. V. Jeffers, E. Rodríguez, M. Zechmeister, J. R. Barnes, C. A. Haswell, G. A. L. Coleman, and 12 colleagues, 2020, MNRAS, 493, 536 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A super-Earth planet orbiting HD 79211 (GJ 338 B)
González-Álvarez, E., M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. A. Caballero, J. Sanz-Forcada, V. J. S. Béjar, L. González-Cuesta, S. Dreizler, and 23 colleagues, 2020, arXiv, arXiv:2003.13052 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LP 729-54
Nowak, G., R. Luque, H. Parviainen, E. Pallé, K. Molaverdikhani, V. J. S. Béjar, J. Lillo-Box, and 87 colleagues, 2020, arXiv, arXiv:2003.01140 [pdf]

Radial Velocity Photon Limits for the Dwarf Stars of Spectral Classes F-M
Reiners, A. and M. Zechmeister, 2020, ApJS, 247, 11 [pdf]

Is there Na I in the atmosphere of HD 209458b?. Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies
Casasayas-Barris, N., E. Pallé, F. Yan, G. Chen, R. Luque, M. Stangret, E. Nagel, and 18 colleagues, 2020, A&A, 635, A206 [pdf]

Radial velocity constraints on the long-period transiting planet Kepler-1625 b with CARMENES
Timmermann, A., R. Heller, A. Reiners, and M. Zechmeister, 2020, A&A, 635, A59 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Dynamical characterization of the multiple planet system GJ 1148 and prospects of habitable exomoons around GJ 1148 b
Trifonov, T., M. H. Lee, M. Kürster, T. Henning, E. Grishin, S. Stock, J. Tjoa, and 25 colleagues, 2020, arXiv, arXiv:2002.00906 [pdf]

2019


Ionized calcium in the atmospheres of two ultra-hot exoplanets WASP-33b and KELT-9b
Yan, F., N. Casasayas-Barris, K. Molaverdikhani, F. J. Alonso-Floriano, A. Reiners, E. Pallé, T. Henning, and 21 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 632, A69 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The He I triplet at 10830 Ĺ across the M dwarf sequence
Fuhrmeister, B., S. Czesla, L. Hildebrandt, E. Nagel, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, D. Hintz, E. N. Johnson, and 20 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 632, A24 [pdf]

Water vapor detection in the transmission spectra of HD 209458 b with the CARMENES NIR channel
Sánchez-López, A., F. J. Alonso-Floriano, M. López-Puertas, I. A. G. Snellen, B. Funke, E. Nagel, F. F. Bauer, and 27 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 630, A53 [pdf]

A giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models
Morales, J. C., A. J. Mustill, I. Ribas, M. B. Davies, A. Reiners, F. F. Bauer, D. Kossakowski, and 175 colleagues, 2019, Sci, 365, 1441 [pdf]

Planetary system around the nearby M dwarf GJ 357 including a transiting, hot, Earth-sized planet optimal for atmospheric characterization
Luque, R., E. Pallé, D. Kossakowski, S. Dreizler, J. Kemmer, N. Espinoza, J. Burt, and 69 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 628, A39 [pdf]

Characterization and calibration of a Fourier-transform spectrometer using a laser frequency comb
Huke, P., M. Debus, M. Zechmeister, and A. Reiners, 2019, JOSAB, 36, 1899 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Photospheric parameters of target stars from high-resolution spectroscopy. II. Simultaneous multiwavelength range modeling of activity insensitive lines
Passegger, V. M., A. Schweitzer, D. Shulyak, E. Nagel, P. H. Hauschildt, A. Reiners, P. J. Amado, and 21 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 627, A161 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Detection of a mini-Neptune around LSPM J2116+0234 and refinement of orbital parameters of a super-Earth around GJ 686 (BD+18 3421)
Lalitha, S., D. Baroch, J. C. Morales, V. M. Passegger, F. F. Bauer, C. Cardona Guillén, S. Dreizler, and 30 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 627, A116 [pdf]

Magnetic fields in M dwarfs from the CARMENES survey
Shulyak, D., A. Reiners, E. Nagel, L. Tal-Or, J. A. Caballero, M. Zechmeister, V. J. S. Béjar, and 17 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 626, A86 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two temperate Earth-mass planet candidates around Teegarden's Star
M. Zechmeister, S. Dreizler, I. Ribas, A. Reiners, J. A. Caballero, F. F. Bauer, V. J. S. Béjar, and 176 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 627, A49 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Different roads to radii and masses of the target stars
Schweitzer, A., V. M. Passegger, C. Cifuentes, V. J. S. Béjar, M. Cortés-Contreras, J. A. Caballero, C. del Burgo, and 24 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 625, A68 [pdf]

Correcting HIRES/Keck radial velocities for small systematic errors
Tal-Or, L., T. Trifonov, S. Zucker, T. Mazeh, and M. Zechmeister, 2019, MNRAS, 484, L8 [pdf]

Gliese 49: activity evolution and detection of a super-Earth. A HADES and CARMENES collaboration
Perger, M., G. Scandariato, I. Ribas, J. C. Morales, L. Affer, M. Azzaro, P. J. Amado, and 36 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 624, A123 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Chromospheric modeling of M 2-3 V stars with PHOENIX
Hintz, D., B. Fuhrmeister, S. Czesla, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, E. N. Johnson, A. Schweitzer, J. A. Caballero, and 22 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 623, A136 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Activity indicators at visible and near-infrared wavelengths
Schöfer, P., S. V. Jeffers, A. Reiners, D. Shulyak, B. Fuhrmeister, E. N. Johnson, M. Zechmeister, and 17 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 623, A44 [pdf]

Detection and Doppler monitoring of K2-285 (EPIC 246471491), a system of four transiting planets smaller than Neptune
Palle, E., G. Nowak, R. Luque, D. Hidalgo, O. Barragán, J. Prieto-Arranz, T. Hirano, and 39 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 623, A41 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Period search in Hα, Na I D, and Ca II IRT lines
Fuhrmeister, B., S. Czesla, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, E. N. Johnson, P. Schöfer, S. V. Jeffers, J. A. Caballero, and 16 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 623, A24 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The enigmatic planetary system GJ 4276: one eccentric planet or two planets in a 2:1 resonance?
Nagel, E., S. Czesla, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, S. Dreizler, G. Anglada-Escudé, E. Rodríguez, I. Ribas, and 21 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 622, A153 [pdf]

Multiple water band detections in the CARMENES near-infrared transmission spectrum of HD 189733 b
Alonso-Floriano, F. J., A. Sánchez-López, I. A. G. Snellen, M. López-Puertas, E. Nagel, P. J. Amado, F. F. Bauer, and 23 colleagues, 2019, A&A, 621, A74 [pdf]

2018


Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b
Nortmann, L., E. Pallé, M. Salz, J. Sanz-Forcada, E. Nagel, F. J. Alonso-Floriano, S. Czesla, and 21 colleagues, 2018, Sci, 362, 1388 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The warm super-Earths in twin orbits around the mid-type M dwarfs Ross 1020 (GJ 3779) and LP 819-052 (GJ 1265)
Luque, R., G. Nowak, E. Pallé, D. Kossakowski, T. Trifonov, M. Zechmeister, V. J. S. Béjar, and 23 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 620, A171 [pdf]

Detection of He I λ10830 Å absorption on HD 189733 b with CARMENES high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
Salz, M., S. Czesla, P. C. Schneider, E. Nagel, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, L. Nortmann, F. J. Alonso-Floriano, and 31 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 620, A97 [pdf]

A candidate super-Earth planet orbiting near the snow line of Barnard's star
Ribas, I., M. Tuomi, A. Reiners, R. P. Butler, J. C. Morales, M. Perger, S. Dreizler, and 56 colleagues, 2018, Natur, 563, 365 [pdf]

CORDIC-like method for solving Keplers equation
Zechmeister, M., 2018, A&A, 619, A128, [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Nine new double-line spectroscopic binary stars
Baroch, D., J. C. Morales, I. Ribas, L. Tal-Or, M. Zechmeister, A. Reiners, J. A. Caballero, and 23 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 619, A32 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A Neptune-mass planet traversing the habitable zone around HD 180617
Kaminski, A., T. Trifonov, J. A. Caballero, A. Quirrenbach, I. Ribas, A. Reiners, P. J. Amado, and 33 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 618, A115 [pdf]

Physical modeling of echelle spectrographs: the CARMENES case study
Pinto, M. T., A. Chanumolu, A. Quirrenbach, S. Reffert, M. Zechmeister, and F. Bauer, 2018, SPIE1, 10705

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Wing asymmetries of Hα, Na I D, and He I lines
Fuhrmeister, B., S. Czesla, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, S. V. Jeffers, J. A. Caballero, M. Zechmeister, A. Reiners, and 9 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 615, [pdf]

The CARMENES Search for Exoplanets around M Dwarfs: A Low-mass Planet in the Temperate Zone of the Nearby K2-18
Sarkis, P., T. Henning, M. Kürster, T. Trifonov, M. Zechmeister, L. Tal-Or, G. Anglada-Escudé, and 18 colleagues, 2018, AJ, 155, 257 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Radial-velocity variations of active stars in visual-channel spectra
Tal-Or, L., M. Zechmeister, A. Reiners, S. V. Jeffers, P. Schöfer, A. Quirrenbach, P. J. Amado, and 18 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 614, A122 [pdf]

CARMENES input catalogue of M dwarfs. III. Rotation and activity from high-resolution spectroscopic observations
Jeffers, S. V., P. Schöfer, A. Lamert, A. Reiners, D. Montes, J. A. Caballero, M. Cortés-Contreras, and 14 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 614, A76 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. High-resolution optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of 324 survey stars
Reiners, A., M. Zechmeister, J. A. Caballero, I. Ribas, J. C. Morales, S. V. Jeffers, P. Schöfer, and 164 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 612, A49 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. HD147379 b: A nearby Neptune in the temperate zone of an early-M dwarf
Reiners, A., I. Ribas, M. Zechmeister, J. A. Caballero, T. Trifonov, S. Dreizler, J. C. Morales, and 165 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 609, L5 [pdf]

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs . First visual-channel radial-velocity measurements and orbital parameter updates of seven M-dwarf planetary systems
Trifonov, T., M. Kürster, M. Zechmeister, L. Tal-Or, J. A. Caballero, A. Quirrenbach, P. J. Amado, and 162 colleagues, 2018, A&A, 609, [pdf]

Spectrum radial velocity analyser (SERVAL). High-precision radial velocities and two alternative spectral indicators
M. Zechmeister, A. Reiners, P. J. Amado, M. Azzaro, F. F. Bauer, V. J. S. Béjar, J. A. Caballero, E. W. Guenther, H.-J. Hagen, S. V. Jeffers, A. Kaminski, M. Kürster, R. Launhardt, D. Montes, J. C. Morales, A. Quirrenbach, S. Reffert, I. Ribas, W. Seifert, L. Tal-Or & V. Wolthoff, 2018, A&A, 609, 12 [pdf]

2017


CARMENES - M Dwarfs and their Planets: First Results
Quirrenbach, A., P. J. Amado, I. Ribas, A. Reiners, J. A. Caballero, W. Seifert, M. Zechmeister, and 1 colleagues, 2017, IAUS, 328

High-cadence spectroscopy of M-dwarfs - II. Searching for stellar pulsations with HARPS
Berdiñas, Z. M., C. Rodríguez-López, P. J. Amado, G. Anglada-Escudé, J. R. Barnes, J. MacDonald, M. Zechmeister, and 1 colleagues, 2017, MNRAS, 469, [pdf]

Three planets around HD 27894. A close-in pair with a 2:1 period ratio and an eccentric Jovian planet at 5.4 AU
Trifonov, T., M. Kürster, M. Zechmeister, O. V. Zakhozhay, S. Reffert, M. H. Lee, F. Rodler, and 2 colleagues, 2017, A&A, 602, [pdf]

2016


No Evidence for Activity Correlations in the Radial Velocities of Kapteyn’s Star
Anglada-Escudé, G., M. Tuomi, P. Arriagada, M. Zechmeister, J. S. Jenkins, A. Ofir, S. Dreizler, and 15 colleagues, 2016, ApJ, 830, [pdf]

CARMENES: an overview six months after first light
Quirrenbach, A., P. J. Amado, J. A. Caballero, R. Mundt, A. Reiners, I. Ribas, W. Seifert, and 150 colleagues, 2016, SPIE, 9908, [pdf]

A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri
G. Anglada-Escudé, P. J. Amado, J. Barnes, Z. M. Berdínas, R. P. Butler, G. A. L. Coleman, I. de la Cueva, S. Dreizler, M. Endl, B. Giesers, S. V. Jeffers, J. S. Jenkins, H. R. A. Jones, M. Kiraga, M. Kürster, M. J. López-González, C. J. Marvin, N. Morales, J. Morin, R. P. Nelson, J. L. Ortiz, A. Ofir, S. Paardekooper, A. Reiners, E. Rodríguez, C. Rodríguez-López, L. F. Sarmiento, J. P. Strachan, Y. Tsapras, M. Tuomi & Mathias Zechmeister, 2016, Nature [letter pdf, news pdf, arXiv pdf]

2015


Precise radial velocities of giant stars. VIII. Testing for the presence of planets with CRIRES infrared radial velocities
T. Trifonov, S. Reffert, M. Zechmeister, A. Reiners & A. Quirrenbach, 2015, A&A, 582, 54 [pdf]

Calibrating echelle spectrographs with Fabry-Perot etalons
F. F. Bauer, M. Zechmeister & A. Reiners, 2015, A&A, 581, 117 [pdf]

Long-lived, long-period radial velocity variations in Aldebaran: A planetary companion and stellar activity
A. P. Hatzes, W. D. Cochran, M. Endl, E. W. Guenther, P. MacQueen, M. Hartmann, M. Zechmeister, I. Han, B.-C. Lee, G. A. H. Walker, S. Yang, A. M. Larson, K.-M. Kim, D. E. Mkrtichian, M. Döllinger, A. E. Simon & L. Girardi, 2015, A&A, 580, 31 [pdf]

2007--2014


Two planets around Kapteyn's star : a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red-dwarf
G. Anglada-Escudé, P. Arriagada, M. Tuomi, M. Zechmeister, J. S. Jenkins, A. Ofir, S. Dreizler, E. Gerlach, C. J. Marvin, A. Reiners, S. V. Jeffers, R. P. Butler, S. S. Vogt, P. J. Amado, C. Rodríguez-López, Z. M. Berdiñas, J. Morin, J. D. Crane, S. A. Shectman, I. B. Thompson, M. Díaz, E. Rivera, L. F. Sarmiento & H. R.A. Jones, 2014, MNRAS, 443L, 89 [pdf]

Flat-relative optimal extraction. A quick and efficient algorithm for stabilised spectrographs
M. Zechmeister, G. Anglada-Escudé & A. Reiners, 2014, A&A, 561, 59 [pdf]

An Independent Planet Search In The Kepler Dataset. II. An extremely low-density super-Earth mass planet around Kepler-87
A. Ofir, S. Dreizler, M. Zechmeister & T. Husser, 2013, A&A, 561, 103 [pdf]

Radial velocity signatures of Zeeman broadening
A. Reiners, D. Shulyak, G. Anglada-Escudé, V. Jeffers, J. Morin, M. Zechmeister, O. Kochukhov & N. Piskunov, 2013, A&A, 552, 102 [pdf]

The planet search programme at the ESO CES and HARPS. IV. The search for Jupiter analogues around solar-like stars
M. Zechmeister, M. Kürster, M. Endl, G. Lo Curto, H. Hartman, H. Nilsson, T. Henning, A. P. Hatzes & W. D. Cochran, 2013, A&A, 552, 78 [pdf]

The Mass of the Planet-hosting Giant Star Beta Geminorum Determined from its p-mode Oscillation Spectrum
A. P. Hatzes, M. Zechmeister, J. Matthews, R. Kuschnig, G. A. H. Walker, M. Döllinger, D. B. Guenther, A. F. J. Moffat, S. M. Rucinski, D. H. Sasselov & W. W. Weiss, 2012, A&A, 543, A98 [pdf]

KIC 4247791: A SB4 system with two eclipsing binaries (2EBs)
H. Lehmann, M. Zechmeister, S. Dreizler, S. Schuh & R. Kanzler, 2012, A&A, 541, 105 [pdf]

The generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram. A new formalism for the floating-mean and Keplerian periodograms
M. Zechmeister & M. Kürster, 2009, A&A, 496, 577 [pdf]

The M dwarf planet search programme at the ESO VLT + UVES. A search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of M dwarfs
M. Zechmeister, M. Kürster & Endl, M. , 2009, A&A, 505, 859 [pdf]

The discovery of stellar oscillations in the K giant ι Draconis
M. Zechmeister, S. Reffert, A. P. Hatzes, M. Endl & A. Quirrenbach, 2008, A&A, 491, 531 [pdf]

The Discovery of Stellar Oscillations in the Planet-hosting Giant Star β Geminorum
A. P. Hatzes & M. Zechmeister, 2007, A&A, 607, 37 [pdf]