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Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 289
Citations - 11915
Mercedes Lopez-Morales is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Exoplanet & Planet. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 279 publications receiving 10392 citations. Previous affiliations of Mercedes Lopez-Morales include Max Planck Society & Institut de Ciències de l'Espai.
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Stellar Diameters and Temperatures. II. Main-sequence K- and M-stars
Tabetha S. Boyajian,Kaspar von Braun,Gerard T. van Belle,Harold A. McAlister,T. ten Brummelaar,Stephen R. Kane,Philip S. Muirhead,Jeremy Jones,Russel White,Gail H. Schaefer,David R. Ciardi,Todd J. Henry,Mercedes Lopez-Morales,Mercedes Lopez-Morales,Stephen T. Ridgway,Douglas R. Gies,Wei-Chun Jao,Bárbara Rojas-Ayala,J. Robert Parks,Laszlo Sturmann,Judit Sturmann,Nils H. Turner,Chris Farrington,P. J. Goldfinger,D. H. Berger +24 more
TL;DR: In this article, Boyajian et al. presented interferometric angular diameter measurements of 21 low-mass, K- and M-dwarfs made with the CHARA Array.
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Stellar Diameters and Temperatures II. Main Sequence K & M Stars
Tabetha S. Boyajian,Kaspar von Braun,Gerard van Belle,Harold A. McAlister,T. ten Brummelaar,Stephen R. Kane,Phil Muirhead,Jeremy Jones,Russel White,Gail Schaefer,David R. Ciardi,Todd J. Henry,Mercedes Lopez-Morales,Stephen T. Ridgway,Douglas R. Gies,Wei-Chun Jao,Bárbara Rojas-Ayala,J. Robert Parks,Laszlo Sturmann,Judit Sturmann,Nils H. Turner,Chris Farrington,P. J. Goldfinger,David H. Berger +23 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented interferometric diameter measurements of 21 K- and M- dwarfs made with the CHARA Array and derived empirical relations between the stellar Teff, radius, and luminosity to broadband color indices and metallicity.
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On the Correlation between the Magnetic Activity Levels, Metallicities, and Radii of Low-Mass Stars
TL;DR: The recent increase in the number of radius measurements of very low mass stars from eclipsing binaries and interferometry of single stars has raised more questions about what could be causing the discrepancy between the observed radii and those predicted by models.
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Growth model interpretation of planet size distribution
Li Zeng,Stein B. Jacobsen,Dimitar Sasselov,Michail I. Petaev,Andrew Vanderburg,Mercedes Lopez-Morales,Juan Pérez-Mercader,Thomas R. Mattsson,Gongjie Li,Matthew Z. Heising,Aldo S. Bonomo,Mario Damasso,Travis A. Berger,Hao Cao,Amit Levi,Robin Wordsworth +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a growth model and Monte Carlo simulations are used to demonstrate that many intermediate-size exoplanets are water worlds, which matches the second peak of the exoplanet radius bimodal distribution.
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On the Correlation between the Magnetic Activity Levels, the Metallicities and the Radii of Low-Mass Stars
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the correlation between the radius of the stars and their activity levels or their metallicities and showed that stellar activity and metallicity play an important role on the determination of radius of very low-mass stars.