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Several concepts now exist for small, space-based missions to directly characterize exoplanets in reflected light. Here, we develop an instrument noise model suitable for studying the spectral characterization potential of a…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2016-01-21
Tyler D. Robinson , Karl R. Stapelfeldt , Mark S. Marley
One of the primary goals of exoplanet science is to find and characterize habitable planets, and direct imaging will play a key role in this effort. Though imaging a true Earth analog is likely out of reach from the ground, the coming…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-22
Jared R. Males , Laird M. Close , Olivier Guyon , Katie M. Morzinski , Alfio Puglisi , Philip Hinz , Katherine B. Follette , John D. Monnier , Volker Tolls , Timothy J. Rodigas , Alycia Weinberger , Alan Boss , Derek Kopon , Ya-lin Wu , Simone Esposito , Armando Riccardi , Marco Xompero , Runa Briguglio , Enrico Pinna
We analyse the fundamental limitations for the detection of extraterrestrial planets with Extremely Large Telescopes. For this task, a coronagraphic device combined to a very high order wavefront correction system is required but not…
A dedicated mission to investigate exoplanetary atmospheres represents a major milestone in our quest to understand our place in the universe by placing our Solar System in context and by addressing the suitability of planets for the…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-03
G. Tinetti , J. P. Beaulieu , T. Henning , M. Meyer , G. Micela , I. Ribas , D. Stam , M. Swain , O. Krause , M. Ollivier , E. Pace , B. Swinyard , A. Aylward , R. van Boekel , A. Coradini , T. Encrenaz , I. Snellen , M. R. Zapatero-Osorio , J. Bouwman , J. Y-K. Cho , V. Coudé du Foresto , T. Guillot , M. Lopez-Morales , I. Mueller-Wodarg , E. Palle , F. Selsis , A. Sozzetti , P. A. R. Ade , N. Achilleos , A. Adriani , C. B. Agnor , C. Afonso , C. Allende Prieto , G. Bakos , R. J. Barber , M. Barlow , P. Bernath , B. Bezard , P. Bordé , L. R. Brown , A. Cassan , C. Cavarroc , A. Ciaravella , C. O. U. Cockell , A. Coustenis , C. Danielski , L. Decin , R. De Kok , O. Demangeon , P. Deroo , P. Doel , P. Drossart , L. N. Fletcher , M. Focardi , F. Forget , S. Fossey , P. Fouqué , J. Frith , M. Galand , P. Gaulme , J. I. González Hernández , O. Grasset , D. Grassi , J. L. Grenfell , M. J. Griffin , C. A. Griffith , U. Grözinger , M. Guedel , P. Guio , O. Hainaut , R. Hargreaves , P. H. Hauschildt , K. Heng , D. Heyrovsky , R. Hueso , P. Irwin , L. Kaltenegger , P. Kervella , D. Kipping , T. T. Koskinen , G. Kovács , A. La Barbera , H. Lammer , E. Lellouch , G. Leto , M. Lopez Morales , M. A. Lopez Valverde , M. Lopez-Puertas , C. Lovis , A. Maggio , J. P. Maillard , J. Maldonado Prado , J. B. Marquette , F. J. Martin-Torres , P. Maxted , S. Miller , S. Molinari , D. Montes , A. Moro-Martin , J. I. Moses , O. Mousis , N. Nguyen Tuong , R. Nelson , G. S. Orton , E. Pantin , E. Pascale , S. Pezzuto , D. Pinfield , E. Poretti , R. Prinja , L. Prisinzano , J. M. Rees , A. Reiners , B. Samuel , A. Sanchez-Lavega , J. Sanz Forcada , D. Sasselov , G. Savini , B. Sicardy , A. Smith , L. Stixrude , G. Strazzulla , J. Tennyson , M. Tessenyi , G. Vasisht , S. Vinatier , S. Viti , I. Waldmann , G. J. White , T. Widemann , R. Wordsworth , R. Yelle , Y. Yung , S. N. Yurchenko
The discovery of exoplanets has both focused and expanded the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The consideration of Earth as an exoplanet, the knowledge of the orbital parameters of individual exoplanets, and our new understanding…
Original use of MUSE's laser tomography adaptive optics to directly image young accreting exoplanets
We present recent results obtained with the VLT/MUSE Integral Field Spectrograph fed by the 4LGSF and its laser tomography adaptive optics module GALACSI. While this so-called narrow-field mode of MUSE was not designed to perform directly…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2020-03-05
Julien H. Girard , Jozua de Boer , Sebastiaan Haffert , Peter Zeidler , Alexander Bohn , Rob G. van Holstein , Ignas Snellen , Jarle Brinchmann , Christoph Keller , Roland Bacon , Jaehan Bae
We investigate the possiblity to detect Earth-like planets, in the visible and the near infrared domains, with ground based Extremely Large Telescopes equipped with adaptive systems capable of providing high Strehl ratios. From a detailed…
A transiting planet invites us to measure its size, mass, orbital parameters, atmospheric composition, and other characteristics. But the invitation can only be accepted if the host star is bright enough for precise measurements of its flux…
In the context of extrasolar planet direct detection, we evaluated the performance of differential imaging with ground-based telescopes. This study was carried out in the framework of the VLT-Planet Finder project and is further extended to…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-11-11
A. Boccaletti , D. Mouillet , T. Fusco , P. Baudoz C. Cavarroc , J. -L. Beuzit , C. Moutou , K. Dohlen
One of the most prolific methods of studying exoplanet atmospheres is transmission spectroscopy, which measures the difference between the depth of an exoplanet's transit signal at various wavelengths and attempts to correlate the depth…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
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Ryan J. Oelkers , Luke M. Schmidt , Erika Cook , Mary Anne Limbach , D. L. DePoy , J. L. Marshall , Jimmy Ardoin , Mitchell Barry , Evan Batteas , Alexandra Boone , Brant Conway , Silvana Delgado Adrande , John D. Dixon , Enrique Gonzalez-Vega , Alexandra Guajardo , Landon Holcomb , Christian Lambert , Shravan Menon , Divya Mishra , Jacob Purcell , Zachary Reed , Nathan Sala , Noah Siebersma , Nhu Ngoc Ton , Raenessa M. L. Walker , Z. Franklin Wang , Kaitlin Webber
There are different methods for finding exoplanets such as radial spectral shifts, astrometrical measurements, transits, timing etc. Gravitational microlensing (including pixel-lensing) is among the most promising techniques with the…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-18
A. F. Zakharov , G. Ingrosso , F. De Paolis , A. A. Nucita , F. Strafella , S. Calchi Novati , Ph. Jetzer
The XO project aims at detecting transiting exoplanets around bright stars from the ground using small telescopes. The original configuration of XO (McCullough et al. 2005) has been changed and extended as described here. The instrumental…
Because of the recent technological advances, the key technologies needed for precision space optical astrometry are now in hand. The Microarcsecond Astrometry Probe (MAP) mission concept is designed to find 1 Earth mass planets at 1AU…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-03-13
Michael Shao , Slava G. Turyshev , Eduardo Bendek , Debra Fischer , Olivier Guyon , Barbara McArthur , Matthew Muterspaugh , Chengxing Zhai , Celine Boehm
SCALES (Slicer Combined with an Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) is a 2 to 5 micron high-contrast lenslet-based Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) designed to characterize exoplanets and their atmospheres. Like other…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-08-25
Deno Stelter , Andrew J. Skemer , Renate Kupke , Cyril Bourgenot , Raquel A. Martinez , Stephanie E. Sallum