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PP 016114

Chemical Abundances of M-dwarfs from the APOGEE Survey. I. The Exoplanet Hosting Stars Kepler-138 and Kepler-186

Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, Olga Zamora, C. Allende Prieto, Verne Smith, Suvrath Mahadevan Cullen Blake, J. A. Johnson, Henrik Jonsson, Marc Pinsonneault, Jon Holtzman, S. R. Majewski, Matthew Shetrone, Johanna Teske, David Nidever, Ricardo Schiavon, Jennifer Sobeck, A. E. Garcia Perez, Y. Gomez Maqueo Chew, Keivan Stassun
Several institutions from USA and Europe (including IAC and ULL)
We report the first detailed chemical abundance analysis of the exoplanet-hosting M-dwarf stars Kepler-138 and Kepler-186 from the analysis of high-resolution (R~22,500) H-band spectra from the SDSS IV - APOGEE survey. Chemical abundances of thirteen elements - C, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, and Fe - are extracted from the APOGEE spectra of these early M-dwarfs via spectrum syntheses computed with an improved line list that takes into account H2O and FeH lines. This paper demonstrates that APOGEE spectra can be analyzed to determine detailed chemical compositions of M-dwarfs. Both exoplanet-hosting M-dwarfs display modest sub-solar metallicities: [Fe/H]_Kepler-138 = -0.09+-0.09 dex and [Fe/H]_Kepler-186 = -0.08+-0.10 dex. The measured metallicities resulting from this high-resolution analysis are found to be higher by ~0.1-0.2 dex than previous estimates from lower-resolution spectra. The C/O ratios obtained for the two planet-hosting stars are near-solar, with values of 0.55+-0.10 for Kepler-138 and 0.52+-0.12 for Kepler-186. Kepler-186 exhibits a marginally enhanced [Si/Fe] ratio.

 
Aceptado para publicación en ApJ | Enviado el 2016-12-14 | Proyecto P/308615