HARPS RV and stellar activity

The most recent velocimeters with a stability of can detect very low-mass planets out to the habitable zone of these stars. Low-mass small planets are abundant around M dwarfs, and most of the known potentially habitable planets orbit one of these cool stars.

Our M-dwarf radial velocity monitoring with HARPS on the ESO 3.6m telescope at La Silla observatory makes a major contribution to this sample. We present here dense radial velocity (RV) time series for three M dwarfs observed over ~five years: GJ 3293 (0.42M_{sun}_), GJ 3341 (0.47M_{sun}_), and GJ 3543 (0.45M_{sun}_). We extracted these RVs through minimum chi^2^ -matching of each spectrum against a stack of all observed spectra for the same star that has a high S/N ratio.