The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: giant planet and brown dwarf demographics from 10 to 100 au

EL Nielsen, RJ De Rosa, B Macintosh… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a statistical analysis of the first 300 stars observed by the Gemini Planet Imager
Exoplanet Survey. This subsample includes six detected planets and three brown dwarfs; …

The origin and evolution of transition discs: successes, problems, and open questions

JE Owen - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2016 - cambridge.org
Transition discs are protoplanetary discs that show evidence for large holes or wide gaps
(with widths comparable to their radii) in their dust component. These discs could be giving …

The sphere infrared survey for exoplanets (shine)-iii. the demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with sphere

A Vigan, C Fontanive, M Meyer, B Biller… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
The SpHere INfrared Exoplanet (SHINE) project is a 500-star survey performed with
SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope for the purpose of directly detecting new substellar …

The initial mass function based on the full-sky 20 pc census of∼ 3600 stars and brown Dwarfs

JD Kirkpatrick, F Marocco, CR Gelino… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A complete accounting of nearby objects—from the highest-mass white dwarf progenitors
down to low-mass brown dwarfs—is now possible, thanks to an almost complete set of …

Hints for a turnover at the snow line in the giant planet occurrence rate

RB Fernandes, GD Mulders, I Pascucci… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The orbital distribution of giant planets is crucial for understanding how terrestrial planets
form and predicting yields of exoplanet surveys. Here, we derive giant planets occurrence …

Imaging extrasolar giant planets

BP Bowler - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
High-contrast adaptive optics (AO) imaging is a powerful technique to probe the
architectures of planetary systems from the outside-in and survey the atmospheres of self …

Dearth of short-period Neptunian exoplanets: A desert in period-mass and period-radius planes

T Mazeh, T Holczer, S Faigler - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2016 - aanda.org
A few studies have reported a significant dearth of exoplanets with Neptune mass and
radius with orbital periods below 2–4 d. This cannot be explained by observational biases …

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME): a planet in the 45 Myr Tucana–Horologium association

ER Newton, AW Mann, BM Tofflemire… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Young exoplanets are snapshots of the planetary evolution process. Planets that orbit stars
in young associations are particularly important because the age of the planetary system is …

[HTML][HTML] The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE)-I. Sample definition and target characterization

S Desidera, G Chauvin, M Bonavita, S Messina… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Large surveys with new-generation high-contrast imaging instruments are needed
to derive the frequency and properties of exoplanet populations with separations from~ 5 to …

A volume-limited sample of ultracool dwarfs. I. Construction, space density, and a gap in the L/T transition

WMJ Best, MC Liu, EA Magnier… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new volume-limited sample of L0–T8 dwarfs out to 25 pc defined entirely by
parallaxes, using our recent measurements from UKIRT/WFCAM along with Gaia DR2 and …