scholarly journals Planet formation with all flavors of adaptive optics: VLT/MUSE’s laser tomography adaptive optics to directly image young accreting exoplanets

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien H. Girard ◽  
Sebastiaan Y. Haffert ◽  
Jaehan Bae ◽  
Peter Zeidler ◽  
Jozua de Boer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Optics ◽  
Planet Formation ◽  
Laser Tomography

scholarly journals Probing AU-scale Structure using Spectro-astrometry

2004 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 417-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michihiro Takami ◽  
Jeremy Bailey ◽  
Antonio Chrysostomou ◽  
Motohide Tamura ◽  
Hiroshi Terada
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Optics ◽  
Main Sequence ◽  
Planet Formation ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Circumstellar Disks ◽  
Scale Structure ◽  
Young Stars ◽  
Space Telescope ◽  
Powerful Technique ◽  
Circumstellar Environment

The circumstellar environment within 10 AU of young stars are of particular interest for star and planet formation. Unfortunately, present imaging facilities such as the Hubble Space Telescope or adaptive optics on 10-m telescopes cannot resolve this region. We have proved that “spectro-astrometry” is a powerful technique for discovering pre-main-sequence binaries, determining kinematics of outflows and providing evidence for gaps in circumstellar disks — all down to AU scales. In this paper, we summarise our progress to date.

HARMONI at the diffraction limit: from single conjugate to laser tomography adaptive optics (Conference Presentation)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-François Sauvage ◽  
Benoit Neichel ◽  
Thierry Fusco ◽  
Carlos M. Correia ◽  
Kjetil Dohlen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Optics ◽  
Diffraction Limit ◽  
Laser Tomography

scholarly journals Special Session 7 Young Stars, Brown Dwarfs, and Protoplanetary Disks

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (H15) ◽  
pp. 727-728
Author(s):  
Jane Gregorio-Hetem ◽  
Silvia Alencar
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Optics ◽  
Planet Formation ◽  
Protoplanetary Disks ◽  
Brown Dwarfs ◽  
Young Stars ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Brown Dwarf ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Substellar Objects

In recent years our knowledge of star, brown dwarf and planet formation has progressed immensely due to new data in the IR domain (Spitzer telescope), new X-ray campaigns such as the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP) and the X-ray Emission Survey of Taurus (XEST), with XMM-Newton, as well as adaptive optics results and synoptic studies of young stellar and substellar objects.

scholarly journals First scattered light detection of a nearly edge-on transition disk around the T Tauri star RY Lupi

2018 ◽  
Vol 614 ◽  
pp. A88 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Langlois ◽  
A. Pohl ◽  
A.-M. Lagrange ◽  
A.- L. Maire ◽  
D. Mesa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Optics ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Planet Formation ◽  
Scattered Light ◽  
Emission Feature ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Tauri Star ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
High Angular Resolution ◽  
T Tauri

Context. Transition disks are considered sites of ongoing planet formation, and their dust and gas distributions could be signposts of embedded planets. The transition disk around the T Tauri star RY Lup has an inner dust cavity and displays a strong silicate emission feature. Aims. Using high-resolution imaging we study the disk geometry, including non-axisymmetric features, and its surface dust grain, to gain a better understanding of the disk evolutionary process. Moreover, we search for companion candidates, possibly connected to the disk. Methods. We obtained high-contrast and high angular resolution data in the near-infrared with the VLT/SPHERE extreme adaptive optics instrument whose goal is to study the planet formation by detecting and characterizing these planets and their formation environments through direct imaging. We performed polarimetric imaging of the RY Lup disk with IRDIS (at 1.6 μm), and obtained intensity images with the IRDIS dual-band imaging camera simultaneously with the IFS spectro-imager (0.9–1.3 μm). Results. We resolved for the first time the scattered light from the nearly edge-on circumstellar disk around RY Lup, at projected separations in the 100 au range. The shape of the disk and its sharp features are clearly detectable at wavelengths ranging from 0.9 to 1.6 μm. We show that the observed morphology can be interpreted as spiral arms in the disk. This interpretation is supported by in-depth numerical simulations. We also demonstrate that these features can be produced by one planet interacting with the disk. We also detect several point sources which are classified as probable background objects.

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