Searching for Young Planets with Sparse Aperture Masking

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Feb 2009

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COOL STARS, STELLAR SYSTEMS AND THE SUN: Proceedings of the 15th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun.

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Optics

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Extrasolar Planetary Systems, Binary And Multiple Stars, Giant And Subgiant Stars

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We describe an ongoing survey to directly detect substellar and planetary companions to nearby young stars. This survey uses adaptive optics and nonredundant aperture-masking inter-ferometry to achieve typical contrast limits of ΔK ~6 at the diffraction limit, probing a completely new regime of parameter space. These observations have revealed many new stellar companions, but only a few companions that might be brown dwarfs; this paucity resembles the so-called ``brown dwarf desert'' that has been observed by RV planet searches. The survey has not detected any extra-solar planets, despite mass detection limits as low as 7 MJup, yielding constraints on the population of extrasolar giant planets. Finally, we discuss some of the implications for protoplanetary disk evolution, including potential sources for gap formation and disk dissipation.

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