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We present images taken using the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) with the Gemini Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics System (GeMS) in three 2 arcmin$^2$ fields in the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey. These…

Time-series spectrophotometric studies of exoplanets during transit using ground-based facilities are a promising approach to characterize their atmospheric compositions. We aim to investigate the transit spectrum of the hot Jupiter…

Over the past five years, radial-velocity and transit techniques have revealed a new population of Earth-like planets with masses of a few Earth masses. Their very close orbit around their host star requires an exquisite inner working angle…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Julien Milli , David Mouillet , Dimitri Mawet , Hans Martin Schmid , Andreas Bazzon , Julien H. Girard , Kjetil Dohlen , Ronald Roelfsema

Few spectra of directly-imaged exoplanets have been obtained in the mid-infrared (> 3 $\mu$m). This region is particularly rich in molecular spectral signatures, whose measurements can help recover atmospheric parameters and provide a…

A gas giant planet has previously been directly seen orbiting at 8-10 AU within the debris disk of the ~12 Myr old star {\beta} Pictoris. The {\beta} Pictoris system offers the rare opportunity to study the physical and atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Bonnefoy , A. Boccaletti , A. -M. Lagrange , F. Allard , C. Mordasini , H. Beust , G. Chauvin , J. H. V. Girard , D. Homeier , D. Apai , S. Lacour , D. Rouan

We report the presence of scattered light from dust grains located in the giant planet formation region of the circumbinary disk orbiting the ~20-Myr-old close (~0.045 AU separation) binary system V4046 Sgr AB based on observations with the…

We have observed two of the six Frontier Fields galaxy clusters, MACS J0416.1-2403 and Abell 2744, using the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System (GeMS) and the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI). With 0.08"-0.10" FWHM our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Mischa Schirmer , Rodrigo Carrasco , Peter Pessev , Vincent Garrel , Claudia Winge , Benoit Neichel , Fabrice Vidal

The Automated Planet Finder (APF) is a facility purpose-built for the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets through high-cadence Doppler velocimetry of the reflex barycentric accelerations of their host stars. Located atop…

ADI and SDI are well-established high-contrast imaging techniques, but their application is challenging for companions at small angular separations. The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent adaptive-optics assisted,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 H. J. Hoeijmakers , H. Schwarz , I. A. G. Snellen , R. J. de Kok , M. Bonnefoy , G. Chauvin , A. M. Lagrange , J. H. Girard

We report Gemini Planet Imager H band high-contrast imaging/integral field spectroscopy and polarimetry of the HD 100546, a 10 $Myr$-old early-type star recently confirmed to host a thermal infrared bright (super)jovian protoplanet at wide…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Thayne Currie , Ryan Cloutier , Sean Brittain , Carol Grady , Adam Burrows , Takayuki Muto , Scott J. Kenyon , Marc J. Kuchner

We summarize the red channel (2-5 micron) of the Planetary Systems Imager (PSI), a proposed second-generation instrument for the TMT. Cold exoplanets emit the majority of their light in the thermal infrared, which means these exoplanets can…

Due to its proximity, youth, and solar-like characteristics with a spectral type of K2V, Eps Eri is one of the most extensively studied systems in an extrasolar planet context. Based on radial velocity, astrometry, and studies of the…

The analysis of exoplanetary atmospheres by means of high-resolution spectroscopy is an expanding research field which provides information on chemical composition, thermal structure, atmospheric dynamics and orbital velocity of exoplanets.…

An international group of scientists has begun planning for the Planet Formation Imager (PFI, www.planetformationimager.org), a next-generation infrared interferometer array with the primary goal of imaging the active phases of planet…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-26 John D. Monnier , 48 endorsers

ESPI has been proposed for direct imaging and spectral analysis of giant planets orbiting solar-type stars. ESPI extends the concept suggested by Nisenson and Papaliolios (2001) for a square aperture apodized telescope that has sufficient…

Very few debris discs have been imaged in scattered light at wavelengths beyond 3 microns because the thermal emission from both the sky and the telescope is generally too strong with respect to the faint emission of a debris disc. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Milli , A. -M. Lagrange , D. Mawet , O. Absil , J. -C. Augereau , D. Mouillet , A. Boccaletti , J. H. Girard , G. Chauvin