Adaptive optics for high-resolution imaging

KM Hampson, R Turcotte, DT Miller… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique that corrects for optical aberrations. It was originally
proposed to correct for the blurring effect of atmospheric turbulence on images in ground …

Reference-star differential imaging on SPHERE/IRDIS

C Xie, E Choquet, A Vigan, F Cantalloube… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Reference-star differential imaging (RDI) is a promising technique in high-contrast
imaging that is thought to be more sensitive to exoplanets and disks than angular differential …

Protoplanetary disks in Ks-band total intensity and polarized light

BB Ren, M Benisty, C Ginski, R Tazaki… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The diverse morphology among protoplanetary disks may result from planet-disk
interactions, suggesting the presence of planets undergoing formation. The characterization …

Apocenter pileup and arcs: A narrow dust ring around HD 129590

J Olofsson, P Thébault, A Bayo, J Milli… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Observations of debris disks have significantly improved over the past decades,
both in terms of sensitivity and spatial resolution. At near-infrared wavelengths, new …

Debris disk color with the Hubble Space Telescope

BB Ren, I Rebollido, É Choquet, WH Zhou… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Multiwavelength scattered light imaging of debris disks may inform dust properties
including typical size and mineral composition. Existing studies have investigated a small …

The vertical structure of debris discs and the impact of gas

J Olofsson, P Thébault, Q Kral, A Bayo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The vertical structure of debris discs provides clues about their dynamical evolution and the
collision rate of the unseen planetesimals. Thanks to the ever-increasing angular resolution …

A uniform analysis of debris discs with the Gemini Planet Imager II: constraints on dust density distribution using empirically informed scattering phase functions

J Hom, J Patience, CH Chen, G Duchêne… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Spatially resolved images of debris discs are necessary to determine disc morphological
properties and the scattering phase function (SPF) thatantifies the brightness of scattered …

Imaging exoplanets with coronagraphic instruments

R Galicher, J Mazoyer - Comptes …, 2023 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
L'exoplanétologie est un domaine très actif de l'astronomie moderne avec des questions
encore ouvertes: comment les systèmes planétaires se forment-ils et évoluent-ils; pourquoi …

A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager. I. An Empirical Search for Perturbations from Planetary Companions in Polarized Light Images

KA Crotts, BC Matthews, G Duchêne… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) has excelled in imaging debris disks in the near-
infrared. The GPI Exoplanet Survey imaged 24 debris disks in polarized H-band light, while …

A reinvestigation of debris disc halos

P Thebault, J Olofsson, Q Kral - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Scattered-light images reveal that a significant fraction of debris discs consist of a
bright ring beyond which extends a wide halo. This halo is expected and should be made of …