Direct imaging of exoplanets

High-contrast imaging can find and characterize gas giant planets around nearby young stars and the closest M stars, complementing radial velocity and astrometric searches by exploring orbital separations inaccessible to indirect methods. Ground-based coronagraphs are already probing within 25AU of nearby young stars to find objects as small as 3M_{Jup}. This paper contrasts near-term and future ground-based capabilities with high-contrast imaging modes of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Monte Carlo modeling reveals that JWST can detect planets with masses as small as 0.2M{Jup} across a broad range of orbital separations. We present new calculations for planet brightness as a function of mass and age for specific JWST filters and extending to 0.1M{Jup}_.

Cone search capability for table J/PASP/122/162/stars (Star positions from Simbad)

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/122/162
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/PASP/122/162
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/PASP/122/162
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/122/162
Provenance
Creator Beichman C.A.; Krist J.; Trauger J.T.; Greene T.; Oppenheimer B.,Sivaramakrishnan A.; Doyon R.; Boccaletti A.; Barman T.S.; Rieke M.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2010
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Solar System Astronomy; Stellar Astronomy