Miriam Cortes-Contreras
  
  Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA)
  
  Carmencita: the CARMENES input catalogue
  
  M dwarfs are the most common stars in the solar neighbourhood and the detection of exoplanets around them is known to be more effective compared to more massive stars. To select the best targets to be observed with CARMENES, it has been built Carmencita, the CARMENES Cool dwarf Information and daTa Archive, which is the most comprehensive catalogue of M dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood. It contains dozens of parameters of almost 2200 M dwarfs, from accurate coordinates and proper motions, through spectral types, magnitudes, Hα and X-rays, to vsini or multiplicity at all separations. This information put together allows us to better characterize all the sample by providing the support to carry out different studies such as kinematics, activity or binarity, with which our knowledge of the formation and evolution of M dwarfs will be improved.