Images of embedded Jovian planet formation at a wide separation around AB Aurigae

T Currie, K Lawson, G Schneider, W Lyra… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Direct images of protoplanets embedded in disks around infant stars provide the key to
understanding the formation of gas giant planets such as Jupiter. Using the Subaru …

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE)-III. The demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with SPHERE

A Vigan, C Fontanive, M Meyer, B Biller… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
The SpHere INfrared Exoplanet (SHINE) project is a 500-star survey performed with
SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope for the purpose of directly detecting new substellar …

Confirmation and Keplerian motion of the gap-carving protoplanet HD 169142 b

I Hammond, V Christiaens, DJ Price… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the re-detection of a compact source in the face-on protoplanetary disc
surrounding HD 169142, using VLT/SPHERE data in YJH bands. The source is found at a …

Discovery and spectroscopy of the young jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager

B Macintosh, JR Graham, T Barman, RJ De Rosa… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Directly detecting thermal emission from young extrasolar planets allows measurement of
their atmospheric compositions and luminosities, which are influenced by their formation …

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems I: High-contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2 to 16 μm

AL Carter, S Hinkley, J Kammerer… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present JWST Early Release Science coronagraphic observations of the super-
Jupiter exoplanet, HIP 65426b, with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) from 2 to 5 μm …

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 …

Direct imaging discovery of a super-Jovian around the young Sun-like star AF Leporis

RJ De Rosa, EL Nielsen, Z Wahhaj, JB Ruffio… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Expanding the sample of directly imaged companions to nearby, young stars that
are amenable to detailed astrometric and spectroscopic studies is critical for the continued …

Accreting protoplanets in the LkCa 15 transition disk

S Sallum, KB Follette, JA Eisner, LM Close, P Hinz… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Exoplanet detections have revolutionized astronomy, offering new insights into solar system
architecture and planet demographics. While nearly 1,900 exoplanets have now been …

SPHERE: the exoplanet imager for the Very Large Telescope

JL Beuzit, A Vigan, D Mouillet, K Dohlen… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Observations of circumstellar environments that look for the direct signal of exoplanets and
the scattered light from disks have significant instrumental implications. In the past 15 years …

Three radial gaps in the disk of TW Hydrae imaged with SPHERE

R Van Boekel, T Henning, J Menu… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present scattered light images of the TW Hya disk performed with the Spectro-
Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument in Polarimetric Differential …