Exoplanetary science is on the verge of an unprecedented revolution. The thousands of
exoplanets discovered over the past decade have most recently been supplemented by …

MICADO will enable the ELT to perform diffraction limited near-infrared observations at first
light. The instrument's capabilities focus on imaging (including astrometric and high contrast) …

Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes
and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the surface of their host …

Context. Clouds are ubiquitous in exoplanet atmospheres and they represent a challenge
for the model interpretation of their spectra. When generating a large number of model …

Direct imaging of gas giant exoplanets provides information on their atmospheres and the
architectures of planetary systems. However, few planets have been detected in blind …

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 …

Context. Expanding the sample of directly imaged companions to nearby, young stars that
are amenable to detailed astrometric and spectroscopic studies is critical for the continued …

Aims. The SHINE program is a high-contrast near-infrared survey of 600 young, nearby stars
aimed at searching for and characterizing new planetary systems using VLT/SPHERE's …

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 …

Abstract Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer, we obtained high-resolution (R∼
35,000) K-band spectra of the four planets orbiting HR 8799. We clearly detected H 2 O and …