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

By SpaceRef Editor
January 19, 2012
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Direct Imaging of Extra-solar Planets – Homogeneous Comparison of Detected Planets and Candidates
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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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(Submitted on 17 Jan 2012)

R. Neuhaeuser (1), T. O. B. Schmidt (1) ((1) Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitaets-Sternwarte, Jena, Germany)

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

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Cite as: arXiv:1201.3537v1 [astro-ph.EP]
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From: Tobias Schmidt [view email]
[v1] Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:00:56 GMT (615kb)

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