Herbig Stars: A Quarter Century of Progress

SD Brittain, I Kamp, G Meeus, RD Oudmaijer… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Herbig Ae/Be stars are young contracting stars on the radiative track in the HR
diagram on their way to the main sequence. These stars provide a valuable link between …

Giant planet and brown dwarf formation

G Chabrier, A Johansen, M Janson… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
Understanding the dominant brown dwarf and giant planet formation processes, and finding
out whether these processes rely on completely different mechanisms or share common …

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 …

Detection and characterization of exoplanets and disks using projections on Karhunen–Loève eigenimages

R Soummer, L Pueyo, J Larkin - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a new method to achieve point-spread function (PSF) subtractions for high-
contrast imaging using principal component analysis that is applicable to both point sources …

Giant planet occurrence in the stellar mass-metallicity plane

JA Johnson, KM Aller, AW Howard… - Publications of the …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Correlations between stellar properties and the occurrence rate of exoplanets can be used
to inform the target selection of future planet-search efforts and provide valuable clues about …

Ancient planetary systems are orbiting a large fraction of white dwarf stars

B Zuckerman, C Melis, B Klein… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Infrared studies have revealed debris likely related to planet formation in orbit around∼ 30%
of youthful, intermediate mass, main-sequence stars. We present evidence, based on …

Shadows cast on the transition disk of hd 135344b-multiwavelength vlt/sphere polarimetric differential imaging

T Stolker, C Dominik, H Avenhaus, M Min… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Context. The protoplanetary disk around the F-type star HD 135344B (SAO 206462) is in a
transition stage and shows many intriguing structures both in scattered light and thermal …

A combined Subaru/VLT/MMT 1–5 μm study of planets orbiting HR 8799: Implications for atmospheric properties, masses, and formation

T Currie, A Burrows, Y Itoh, S Matsumura… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present new 1–1.25 μm (z and J band) Subaru/IRCS and 2 μm (K band)
VLT/NaCo data for HR 8799 and a re-reduction of the 3–5 μm MMT/Clio data first presented …

Polarimetry with the Gemini planet imager: methods, performance at first light, and the circumstellar ring around HR 4796A

MD Perrin, G Duchene, M Millar-Blanchaer… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first results from the polarimetry mode of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI),
which uses a new integral field polarimetry architecture to provide high contrast linear …

[BOK][B] Direct imaging of exoplanets

WA Traub, BR Oppenheimer - 2010 - books.google.com
A direct image of an exoplanet system is a snapshot of the planets and disk around a central
star. We can estimate the orbit of a planet from a time series of images, and we can estimate …