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

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]
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