Klio: A 5 micron camera for the detection of giant exoplanets

Details Klio: A 5 micron camera for the detection of giant exoplanets Klio: A 5 micron camera for the detection of giant exoplanets

2003-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312552v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the AIP Conf Proc: "The Search for Other Worlds", eds. S. S. Holt & D. Deming

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1774524

We plan to take advantage of the unprecedented combination of low thermal background and high resolution provided by the 6.5m MMT's adaptive secondary mirror, to target the 3-5 micron atmospheric window where giant planets are expected to be anomalously bright. We are in the process of building a 3-5 micron coronograph that is predicted to be sensitive to planets as close as 0.4 arcsec to the parent star. We expect to be able to detect giant planets down to 5 times Jupiter's mass for a 1 Gyr old system at 10 pc. We plan to carry out a survey which is complementary to the radial velocity detections of planets and constructed to characterize the prevalence and distribution of giant planets around nearby, Sun-like stars.

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