Frontier Planets: Wide Separation Giants and Planet Formation

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Oct 2010

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New Horizons in Astronomy: Frank N. Bash Symposium 2009, proceedings of a conference held Oct. 18-20, 2009 in Austin, Texas, USA

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With almost 400 planets currently known, the study of extrasolar planetary systems has blossomed into a rich field. Still, large classes of planets are predicted to exist but remain to be discovered. Here, I selectively review the state of exoplanetary science and focus on one observationally-driven frontier. Massive planets at wide separations from their host stars have now been directly imaged. I discuss how the interplay between theory and observation at this frontier offers a window into both the phenomenological question of what types of planets and planetary systems exist and the theoretical question of how they came to be.

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