Vérinaud, Christophe[Lab. d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble (France)]
Jul-2010
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Oschmann, J.
Clampin, M.
MacEwen, H.
SPIE
Proceedings of the SPIE, volume 7731
3M.1-3M.10
No
No
International
Bellingham
WA, USA
Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010 (Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave)
27/06/2010 - 2/07/2010
SPIE
San Diego
CA, USA
[en] In the context of exoplanet detection, a large majority of the 400 detected exoplanets have been found by indirect methods. Today, progress in the field of high contrast and angular resolution imaging has allowed direct images of several exoplanetary systems to be taken (cf. HR 8799, Fomalhaut and β Pic).[SUP]1-4[/SUP] In the near future, several new instruments are going to dramatically improve our sensitivity to exoplanet detection. Among these, SPHERE (Spectro Polarimetric High contrast Exoplanet REsearch) at the VLT, MIRI (Mid Infra-Red Instrument) onboard JWST and EPICS at the ELT will be equipped with coronagraphs to reveal faint objects in the vicinity of nearby stars. We made use of the Lyon group (COND) evolutionary models of young (sub-)stellar objects and exoplanets to compare the sensitivities of these different instruments using their estimated coronagraphic profiles. From this comparison, we present a catalogue of targets which are particularly well suited for the different instruments.
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