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 …

The occurrence and architecture of exoplanetary systems

JN Winn, DC Fabrycky - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The basic geometry of the Solar System—the shapes, spacings, and orientations of the
planetary orbits—has long been a subject of fascination as well as inspiration for planet …

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 near infrared imager and slitless spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope. I. Instrument overview and in-flight performance

R Doyon, CJ Willott, JB Hutchings… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) is the science module
of the Canadian-built Fine Guidance Sensor onboard the James Webb Space Telescope …

Discovery and spectroscopy of the young jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager

B Macintosh, JR Graham, T Barman, RJ De Rosa… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Directly detecting thermal emission from young extrasolar planets allows measurement of
their atmospheric compositions and luminosities, which are influenced by their formation …

Astronomical adaptive optics: a review

C Rao, L Zhong, Y Guo, M Li, L Zhang, K Wei - PhotoniX, 2024 - Springer
Since the concept of adaptive optics (AO) was proposed in 1953, AO has become an
indispensable technology for large aperture ground-based optical telescopes aimed at high …

The SPHERE view of the Taurus star-forming region-The full census of planet-forming disks with GTO and DESTINYS programs

A Garufi, C Ginski, RG van Holstein, M Benisty… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
The sample of planet-forming disks observed by high-contrast imaging campaigns over the
last decade is mature enough to enable the demographical analysis of individual star …

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 …

[KIRJA][B] Modern classical physics: optics, fluids, plasmas, elasticity, relativity, and statistical physics

KS Thorne, RD Blandford - 2017 - books.google.com
A groundbreaking text and reference book on twenty-first-century classical physics and its
applications This first-year graduate-level text and reference book covers the fundamental …

AF Lep b: The lowest-mass planet detected by coupling astrometric and direct imaging data

D Mesa, R Gratton, P Kervella, M Bonavita… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Aims. Using the direct-imaging technique, we searched for low-mass companions around
the star AF Lep, which presents a significant proper-motion anomaly (PMa) signal obtained …