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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2019

A discontinuity in the Teff-radius relation of M-dwarfs

Markus Rabus
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Régis Lachaume
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Andrés Jordán
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Rafael Brahm
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Tabetha Boyajian
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Kaspar von Braun
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Néstor Espinoza
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Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin
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Olivier Absil
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Résumé

We report on 13 new high-precision measurements of stellar diameters for low-mass dwarfs obtained by means of near-infrared long-baseline interferometry with PIONIER at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Together with accurate parallaxes from Gaia DR2, these measurements provide precise estimates for their linear radii, effective temperatures, masses, and luminosities. This allows us to refine the effective temperature scale, in particular towards the coolest M-dwarfs. We measure for late-type stars with enhanced metallicity slightly inflated radii, whereas for stars with decreased metallicity we measure smaller radii. We further show that Gaia DR2 effective temperatures for M-dwarfs are underestimated by ∼8.2 per cent and give an empirical MG-Teff relation that is better suited for M-dwarfs with Teff between 2600 and 4000 K. Most importantly, we are able to observationally identify a discontinuity in the Teff-radius plane, which is likely due to the transition from partially convective M-dwarfs to the fully convective regime. We found this transition to happen between 3200 and 3340 K, or equivalently for stars with masses {≈ } 0.23 M_{\odot }. We find that in this transition region the stellar radii are in the range from 0.18 to 0.42 R\odot for similar stellar effective temperatures.
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insu-03703881 , version 1 (24-06-2022)

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Markus Rabus, Régis Lachaume, Andrés Jordán, Rafael Brahm, Tabetha Boyajian, et al.. A discontinuity in the Teff-radius relation of M-dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019, 484, pp.2674-2683. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sty3430⟩. ⟨insu-03703881⟩
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