Extreme adaptive optics

O Guyon - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Over the last two decades, several thousand exoplanets have been identified, and their
study has become a high scientific priority. Direct imaging of nearby exoplanets and the …

Instrumentation for the detection and characterization of exoplanets

F Pepe, D Ehrenreich, MR Meyer - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
In no other field of astrophysics has the impact of new instrumentation been as substantial
as in the domain of exoplanets. Before 1995 our knowledge of exoplanets was mainly based …

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 …

The impact of stellar multiplicity on planetary systems. I. The ruinous influence of close binary companions

AL Kraus, MJ Ireland, D Huber, AW Mann… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The dynamical influence of binary companions is expected to profoundly influence planetary
systems. However, the difficulty of identifying planets in binary systems has left the …

[HTML][HTML] The JWST early release science program for the direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanetary systems

S Hinkley, AL Carter, S Ray, A Skemer… - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The direct characterization of exoplanetary systems with high-contrast imaging is among the
highest priorities for the broader exoplanet community. As large space missions will be …

The near infrared imager and Slitless spectrograph for the James Webb space telescope. IV. Aperture masking interferometry

A Sivaramakrishnan, P Tuthill, JP Lloyd… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless
Spectrograph (JWST-NIRISS) flies a 7-hole non-redundant mask (NRM), the first such …

Closure statistics in interferometric data

L Blackburn, DW Pesce, MD Johnson… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Interferometric visibilities, reflecting the complex correlations between signals recorded at
antennas in an interferometric array, carry information about the angular structure of a …

Performance of near-infrared high-contrast imaging methods with JWST from commissioning

J Kammerer, J Girard, AL Carter… - Space Telescopes …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will revolutionize the field of high-contrast
imaging and enable both the direct detection of Saturn-mass planets and the …

Are inner disc misalignments common? ALMA reveals an isotropic outer disc inclination distribution for young dipper stars

M Ansdell, E Gaidos, C Hedges… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Dippers are a common class of young variable star exhibiting day-long dimmings with
depths of up to several tens of per cent. A standard explanation is that dippers host nearly …

Kepler-445, Kepler-446 and the occurrence of compact multiples orbiting mid-M dwarf stars

PS Muirhead, AW Mann, A Vanderburg… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We confirm and characterize the exoplanetary systems Kepler-445 and Kepler-446: two mid-
M dwarf stars, each with multiple, small, short-period transiting planets. Kepler-445 is a …