VizieR Online Data Catalog: Direct imaging of exoplanets (Beichman+, 2010)
Abstract
High-contrast imaging can find and characterize gas giant planets around nearby young stars and the closest M stars, complementing radial velocity and astrometric searches by exploring orbital separations inaccessible to indirect methods. Ground-based coronagraphs are already probing within 25AU of nearby young stars to find objects as small as 3M{Jup}. This paper contrasts near-term and future ground-based capabilities with high-contrast imaging modes of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Monte Carlo modeling reveals that JWST can detect planets with masses as small as 0.2M{Jup} across a broad range of orbital separations. We present new calculations for planet brightness as a function of mass and age for specific JWST filters and extending to 0.1M{Jup}.
(3 data files).- Publication:
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VizieR Online Data Catalog
- Pub Date:
- April 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010yCat..61220162B
- Keywords:
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- Stars: double and multiple;
- Planets;
- Photometry