Wind-driven halo in high-contrast images-I. Analysis of the focal-plane images of SPHERE

F Cantalloube, OJD Farley, J Milli, N Bharmal… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The wind-driven halo is a feature that is observed in images that were delivered by
the latest generation of ground-based instruments that are equipped with an extreme …

Orbital and atmospheric characterization of the planet within the gap of the PDS 70 transition disk

A Müller, M Keppler, T Henning, M Samland… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. The observation of planets in their formation stage is a crucial but very challenging
step in understanding when, how, and where planets form. PDS 70 is a young pre-main …

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 …

3D selection of 167 substellar companions to nearby stars

F Feng, RP Butler, SS Vogt, MS Clement… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze 5108 AFGKM stars with at least five high-precision radial velocity points, as well
as Gaia and Hipparcos astrometric data, utilizing a novel pipeline developed in previous …

SPHERE: the exoplanet imager for the Very Large Telescope

JL Beuzit, A Vigan, D Mouillet, K Dohlen… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Observations of circumstellar environments that look for the direct signal of exoplanets and
the scattered light from disks have significant instrumental implications. In the past 15 years …

Impact of a new H/He equation of state on the evolution of massive brown dwarfs-New determination of the hydrogen burning limit

G Chabrier, I Baraffe, M Phillips, F Debras - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
We explored the impact of the latest equation of state (EOS) for dense hydrogen–helium
mixtures, which takes into account the interactions between hydrogen and helium species …

orbitize!: A comprehensive orbit-fitting software package for the high-contrast imaging community

S Blunt, JJ Wang, I Angelo, H Ngo, D Cody… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract orbitize! is an open-source, object-oriented software package for fitting the orbits of
directly imaged objects. It packages the Orbits for the Impatient (OFTI) algorithm and a …

Precise Dynamical Masses of Directly Imaged Companions from Relative Astrometry, Radial Velocities, and Hipparcos–Gaia DR2 Accelerations

TD Brandt, TJ Dupuy, BP Bowler - The Astronomical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure dynamical masses for five objects—three ultracool dwarfs, one low-mass star,
and one white dwarf—by fitting orbits to a combination of the Hipparcos–Gaia Catalog of …

Spectral and atmospheric characterization of 51 Eridani b using VLT/SPHERE

M Samland, P Mollière, M Bonnefoy, AL Maire… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. 51 Eridani b is an exoplanet around a young (20 Myr) nearby (29.4 pc) F0-type star,
which was recently discovered by direct imaging. It is one of the closest direct imaging …

MIRACLES: atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets and substellar companions at 4–5 μm-I. Photometric analysis of β Pic b, HIP 65426 b, PZ Tel B …

T Stolker, SP Quanz, KO Todorov, J Kühn… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Directly imaged planets and substellar companions are key targets for the
characterization of self-luminous atmospheres. Their photometric appearance at 4–5 μm is …