The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: giant planet and brown dwarf demographics from 10 to 100 au

EL Nielsen, RJ De Rosa, B Macintosh… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a statistical analysis of the first 300 stars observed by the Gemini Planet Imager
Exoplanet Survey. This subsample includes six detected planets and three brown dwarfs; …

Imaging extrasolar giant planets

BP Bowler - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
High-contrast adaptive optics (AO) imaging is a powerful technique to probe the
architectures of planetary systems from the outside-in and survey the atmospheres of self …

High-contrast observations in optical and infrared astronomy

BR Oppenheimer, S Hinkley - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
High-contrast observations in optical and infrared astronomy are defined as any observation
requiring a technique to reveal a celestial object of interest that is in such close angular …

A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266

BO Demory, FJ Pozuelos, YGM Chew, L Sabin… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We report the discovery and characterisation of a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting
the bright (K= 8.8), quiet, and nearby (37 pc) M3V dwarf TOI-1266. We validate the planetary …

Synthetic spectra and colors of young giant planet atmospheres: effects of initial conditions and atmospheric metallicity

JJ Fortney, MS Marley, D Saumon… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We examine the spectra and infrared colors of the cool, methane-dominated atmospheres at
T_ {\mathrm {eff}\,}\leq 1400 K expected for young gas giant planets. We couple these …

The Gemini/NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The frequency of planets around young moving group stars

BA Biller, MC Liu, Z Wahhaj, EL Nielsen… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We report results of a direct imaging survey for giant planets around 80 members of the β
Pic, TW Hya, Tucana-Horologium, AB Dor, and Hercules-Lyra moving groups, observed as …

Planets around low-mass stars (PALMS). IV. The outer architecture of M dwarf planetary systems

BP Bowler, MC Liu, EL Shkolnik… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from a high-contrast adaptive optics imaging search for giant planets and
brown dwarfs (≳ 1 M Jup) around 122 newly identified nearby (≲ 40 pc) young M dwarfs …

Deep imaging survey of young, nearby austral stars-VLT/NACO near-infrared Lyot-coronographic observations

G Chauvin, AM Lagrange, M Bonavita… - Astronomy & …, 2010 - aanda.org
Context. High contrast and high angular resolution imaging is the optimal search technique
for substellar companions to nearby stars at physical separations larger than typically 10 AU …

A new high contrast imaging program at Palomar observatory

S Hinkley, BR Oppenheimer… - Publications of the …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a new instrument that forms the core of a long-term high contrast imaging
program at the 200 inch (5 m) Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory. The primary …

Formation of giant planets by disk instability on wide orbits around protostars with varied masses

AP Boss - The Astrophysical Journal, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Doppler surveys have shown that more massive stars have significantly higher frequencies
of giant planets inside∼ 3 AU than lower mass stars, consistent with giant planet formation …