Initial Results From The AO International Deep Planet Search Around Young A Stars

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Sep 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ess.....2.2202v&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, ESS meeting #2, #22.02

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Throughout their evolution, A stars exhibit favorable physical conditions and indirect evidence of planet formation, such as extended protoplanetary disks at the pre-main sequence stage and debris disks in the main sequence phase. Recent breakthrough discoveries of planetary companions around young, dusty A stars have identified the first massive planets at wide orbital separation. In order to understand the frequency of such systems -- an important factor for formation scenarios -- we are conducting a near-infrared adaptive optics search for giant planets around nearby A stars, part the on-going International Deep Planet Search (IDPS). We present the preliminary results of this survey of 40 stars: 28 of them are nearby (<65 pc) young (<200 Myr) A stars, and the others are star identified as extremely young (<20 Myr) from spectral analysis. The observations were obtained with 8 meter-class telescopes (VLT and Gemini). The Locally Optimized Combination of Images (LOCI) was used to suppress the speckle noise of the central star and reach the detection level of giant planets and low-mass brown dwarfs at wide orbital separation. The median 5-sigma sensitivity of our observations is 9.5 mag at 0.5 arcseconds and 14 mag at separations of a few arcseconds, allowing us to reach limits 1 to 20 Mjup, depending on the target mass and age. We present an overview of the observations, data analysis and performance, followed by a statistical analysis of the survey results, which provide upper limits on the fractions of stars with giant planet and low mass brown dwarf companions.

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