Debris disks: structure, composition, and variability

AM Hughes, G Duchêne… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Debris disks are tenuous, dust-dominated disks commonly observed around stars over a
wide range of ages. Those around main sequence stars are analogous to the Solar System's …

Advances in optical/infrared interferometry

F Eisenhauer, JD Monnier… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
After decades of fast-paced technical advances, optical/infrared (O/IR) interferometry has
seen a revolution in recent years:▪ The GRAVITY instrument at the Very Large Telescope …

Scalable photonic-based nulling interferometry with the dispersed multi-baseline GLINT instrument

MA Martinod, B Norris, P Tuthill, T Lagadec… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Characterisation of exoplanets is key to understanding their formation, composition and
potential for life. Nulling interferometry, combined with extreme adaptive optics, is among the …

Lower limits on aperture size for an exoearth detecting coronagraphic mission

CC Stark, A Roberge, A Mandell… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The yield of Earth-like planets will likely be a primary science metric for future space-based
missions that will drive telescope aperture size. Maximizing the exoEarth candidate yield is …

The HOSTS survey—exozodiacal dust measurements for 30 stars

S Ertel, D Defrere, P Hinz, B Mennesson… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems survey searches for dust
near the habitable zones (HZs) around nearby, bright main-sequence stars. We use nulling …

First images of debris disks around TWA 7, TWA 25, HD 35650, and HD 377

É Choquet, MD Perrin, CH Chen… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first images of four debris disks observed in scattered light around the young
(4–250 Myr old) M dwarfs TWA 7 and TWA 25, the K6 star HD 35650, and the G2 star HD …

Solar system physics for exoplanet research

J Horner, SR Kane, JP Marshall… - Publications of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our
understanding of the cosmos—the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just …

The HOSTS survey for exozodiacal dust: observational results from the complete survey

S Ertel, D Defrère, P Hinz, B Mennesson… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) enables nulling
interferometric observations across the N band (8 to 13 μm) to suppress a star's bright light …

Exoplanet science with a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer

SP Quanz, J Kammerer, D Defrère… - Optical and Infrared …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
One of the long-term goals of exoplanet science is the (atmospheric) characterization of a
large sample (> 100) of terrestrial planets to assess their potential habitability and overall …

Nulling data reduction and on-sky performance of the large binocular telescope interferometer

D Defrere, PM Hinz, B Mennesson… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) is a versatile instrument
designed for high angular resolution and high-contrast infrared imaging (1.5–13 μm). In this …