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20122021
most citedDiscovery of a planetary-mass companion within the gap of the transition disk around PDS 70

700 citations · 2.3k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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44 papers

astro-ph.EP2021★ 21 cited

Signs of late infall and possible planet formation around DR Tau using VLT/SPHERE and LBTI/LMIRCam

D. Mesa, C. Ginski, R. Gratton +31

Context. Protoplanetary disks around young stars often contain substructures like rings, gaps, and spirals that could be caused by interactions between the disk and forming planets…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 63 cited

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE)- I Sample definition and target characterization

S. Desidera, G. Chauvin, M. Bonavita +105

Large surveys with new-generation high-contrast imaging instruments are needed to derive the frequency and properties of exoplanet populations with separations from 5 to 300…

astro-ph.IM2021

Curved detector-based optical design for the VLT/BlueMUSE instrument

Alexandre Jeanneau, Johan Kosmalski, Eduard Muslimov +3

BlueMUSE (Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) is a blue-optimised, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph proposed for the Very Large Telescope (VLT)…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 12 cited

3D printing for astronomical mirrors

Melanie Roulet, Carolyn Atkins, Emmanuel Hugot +3

3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, offers a new vision for optical fabrication in term of achievable optical quality and reduction of weight and cost. In this paper w…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 2 cited

Superpolished OAPs for WFIRST CGI

Melanie Roulet, Emmanuel Hugot, Carolyn Atkins +3

Exoplanet imaging requires super polished off-axis parabolas (OAP) with the utmost surface quality. In this paper we describe an innovative manufacturing process combining 3D print…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

Use of 3D printing in astronomical mirror fabrication

Melanie Roulet, Carolyn Atkins, Emmanuel Hugot +12

In this paper we are exploring the possibilities of 3D printing in the fabrication of mirrors for astronomy. Taking the advantages of 3D printing to solve the existing problems cau…