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Mid-IR direct imaging of superjupiters around nearby stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2006

Gabriel Bihain ,
Rafael Rebolo ,
José Antonio Caballero  and
Victor Javier Sánchez Béjar
Gabriel Bihain
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain email: gbihain@ll.iac.es Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Rafael Rebolo
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain email: gbihain@ll.iac.es Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
José Antonio Caballero
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain email: gbihain@ll.iac.es
Victor Javier Sánchez Béjar
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain email: gbihain@ll.iac.es Gran Telescopio Canarias Project, Spain
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Abstract

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Superjupiters are much brigther when they are young and still contracting, and the contrast with the harboring stars is significantly more favorable for their detection. Within the JOVIAN (Jupiter-like Objects in the Visible and the Infrared: Astrophysical Nature) project, a search has been performed for superjupiters around nearby young stars using 4 m class telescopes. Here we summarize the results and present prospects for a future search around young and also relatively older nearby stars with the 10 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the mid-infrared camera CanariCam.

Keywords

(Galaxy:) solar neighborhoodstars: low-mass(stars:) planetary systems
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 1 , Colloquium C200: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science & Techniques , October 2005 , pp. 71 - 74
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© 2006 International Astronomical Union