Exoplanet Imaging Searches from the Ground and Space
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 12 Jul 2012 - Thursday, 12 Jul 2012 |
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| Location: | Room 18 |
| Contact: | Massimo Marengo |
| Phone: | 515-294-2958 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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I present two ongoing surveys to directly image extrasolar planets in infrared light. The ground-based survey component involves a Subaru Telescope adaptive optics search for mid-separation (>20AU) gas-giant planets around early type stars. The space-based component entails the use of the Spitzer Space Telescope to search for wide separation (>100AU) planets and brown dwarfs around stars that are already known to harbor inner planets (<3AU), as determined from Doppler spectroscopy surveys. I describe the current status of these surveys as well as show preliminary results.