Direct Imaging of Extra-solar Planets - Homogeneous Comparison of Detected Planets and Candidates

Details Direct Imaging of Extra-solar Planets - Homogeneous Comparison of Detected Planets and Candidates Direct Imaging of Extra-solar Planets - Homogeneous Comparison of Detected Planets and Candidates

2012-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3537v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Invited review, accepted by InTech for the Book "Topics in Adaptive Optics", 28 pages, 5 figures, in press

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Searching the literature, we found 25 stars with directly imaged planets and candidates. We gathered photometric and spectral information for all these objects to derive their luminosities in a homogeneous way, taking a bolometric correction into account. Using theoretical evolutionary models, one can then estimate the mass from luminosity, temperature, and age. According to our mass estimates, all of them can have a mass below 25 Jup masses, so that they are considered as planets.

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