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 …

Observations of exoplanet atmospheres

IJM Crossfield - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2015‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Detailed characterization of an extrasolar planet's atmosphere provides the best hope for
distinguishing the makeup of its outer layers, and the only hope for understanding the …

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 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 …

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 …

First light of the gemini planet imager

B Macintosh, JR Graham, P Ingraham… - proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - pnas.org
The Gemini Planet Imager is a dedicated facility for directly imaging and spectroscopically
characterizing extrasolar planets. It combines a very high-order adaptive optics system, a …

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 …

Astrometric accelerations as dynamical beacons: a giant planet imaged inside the debris disk of the young star AF Lep

K Franson, BP Bowler, Y Zhou, TD Pearce… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present the direct-imaging discovery of a giant planet orbiting the young star AF Lep, a
1.2 M⊙ member of the 24±3 Myr β Pic moving group. AF Lep was observed as part of our …

On the age of the β Pictoris moving group

EE Mamajek, CPM Bell - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Binks & Jeffries and Malo et al. have recently reported Li depletion boundary (LDB)
ages for the β Pictoris moving group (BPMG) which are twice as old as the oft-cited …