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We present the first statistical analysis of exoplanet direct imaging surveys combining adaptive optics imaging at small separations with deep seeing-limited observations at large separations allowing us to study the entire orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Frédérique Baron , David Lafrenière , Étienne Artigau , Jonathan Gagné , Julien Rameau , Philippe Delorme , Marie-Eve Naud

Context. The {\beta} Pictoris system with its debris disk and a massive giant planet orbiting at \simeq 9 AU represents an ideal laboratory to study giant planet formation and evolution as well as planet-disk interactions. {\beta} Pic b can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. -M. Lagrange , K. De Bondt , N. Meunier , M. Sterzik , H. Beust , F. Galland

Context. It has long been suggested that circumstellar disks surrounding young stars may be the signposts of planets, and still more since the recent discoveries of embedded substellar companions. The planet-disk interaction may create,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Rameau , G. Chauvin , A. -M. Lagrange , P. Thebault , J. Milli , J. H. Girard , M. Bonnefoy

High contrast imaging enables the determination of orbital parameters for substellar companions (planets, brown dwarfs) from the observed relative astrometry and the estimation of model and age-dependent masses from their observed…

Determining the presence of widely separated substellar-mass companion is crucial to understand the dynamics of inner planets in extrasolar planetary systems (e.g. to explain their high mean eccentricity as inner planets are perturbed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alan Hulsebus , Massimo Marengo , Joe Carson , Karl Stapelfeldt

Radial velocity (RV) surveys have discovered hundreds of exoplanetary systems but suffer from a fundamental degeneracy between planet mass $M_p$ and orbital inclination $i$. In this paper we break this degeneracy by combining RVs with…

Direct imaging is a tried and tested method of detecting exoplanets in the near infrared, but has so far not been extended to longer wavelengths. New data at mid-IR wavelengths (8-20{\mu}m) canprovide additional constraints on planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-14 D. J. M. Petit dit de la Roche , M. E. van den Ancker , M. Kissler-Patig , V. D. Ivanov , D. Fedele

Vega may have a massive companion in a wide orbit, as evidenced by structure in its cold dust debris. We have tested this hypothesis by direct imaging with adaptive optics in the M band. The observations were made with a newly commissioned…

The hot Jupiter HD 217107 b was one of the first exoplanets detected using the radial velocity (RV) method, originally reported in the literature in 1999. Today, precise RV measurements of this system span more than 20 years, and there is…

We recently reported on the detection of a possible planetary-mass companion to Beta Pictoris at a projected separation of 8 AU from the star, using data taken in November 2003 with NaCo, the adaptive-optics system installed on the Very…

With the development of extreme high contrast ground-based adaptive optics instruments and space missions aimed at detecting and characterizing Jupiter- and terrestrial-mass planets, it is critical that each target star be thoroughly vetted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Angelle M. Tanner , Christopher R. Gelino , Nicholas M. Law

High precision radial velocity (RV) measurements have been central in the study of exoplanets during the last two decades, from the early discovery of hot Jupiters, to the recent mass measurements of Earth-sized planets uncovered by transit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Étienne Artigau , Lison Malo , René Doyon , Pedro Figueira , Xavier Delfosse , Nicola Astudillo-Defru

In 1992 we began a precision radial velocity (RV) survey for planets around solar-like stars with the Coude Echelle Spectrograph and the Long Camera (CES LC) at the 1.4 m telescope in La Silla (Chile). We have continued the survey with the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Zechmeister , M. Kürster , M. Endl , G. Lo Curto , H. Hartman , H. Nilsson , T. Henning , A. P. Hatzes , W. D. Cochran

Context. Although more than one thousand sub-stellar companions have already been detected with the radial velocity (RV) method, many new companions remain to be detected in the public RV archives. Aims. We wish to use the archival data…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 F. Philipot , A. -M. Lagrange , F. Kiefer , P. Rubini , P. Delorme , A. Chomez

We are carrying out a survey to search for giant extrasolar planets around nearby, moderate-age stars in the mid-infrared L' and M bands (3.8 and 4.8 microns, respectively), using the Clio camera with the adaptive optics system on the MMT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ari Heinze , Phil Hinz , Suresh Sivanandam , Daniel Apai , Michael Meyer

We present the direct-imaging discovery of a substellar companion (a massive planet or low-mass brown dwarf) to the young, $\gamma$ Doradus-type variable star, HIP 39017 (HD 65526). The companion's SCExAO/CHARIS JHK ($1.1-2.4\mu$m) spectrum…

We present the observational results of an L' and M band Adaptive Optics (AO) imaging survey of 54 nearby, sunlike stars for extrasolar planets, carried out using the Clio camera on the MMT. We have concentrated more strongly than all other…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. N. Heinze , Philip M. Hinz , Suresh Sivanandam , Matthew Kenworthy , Michael Meyer , Douglas Miller

We present the discovery of GJ 251 c, a candidate super-Earth orbiting in the Habitable Zone (HZ) of its M dwarf host star. Using high-precision Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) and NEID RVs, in conjunction with archival RVs from the Keck…