The Subaru SEEDS Exoplanet Survey

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Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21542106m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #421.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.287

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We present a status update for the Subaru Telescope's SEEDS survey and the commissioning results for the new instruments to be used for this campaign. SEEDS will employ direct detection techniques to study the duration of giant planet formation, the link between planets and disks, and the evolution of protoplanetary systems and debris disks. This survey will search more than 500 stars in 120 nights of observing over a 5 year period which commenced in October 2009. The SEEDS targets fall into several categories, such as nearby stars and brown dwarfs, young moving groups, young stellar objects, open clusters, white dwarfs, and debris disks. This science is enabled by a suite of recently commissioned high contrast instrumentation, including a 188 actuator curvature AO system (AO188), classical Lyot coronagraph, and near infrared differential imaging science camera (HiCIAO). We describe the SEEDS sample, science goals, instrumentation design, and the commissioning and early survey results.

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