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

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13 papers

astro-ph.EP2021★ 9 cited

Limits on the presence of planets in systems with debris disks: HD 92945 and HD 107146

D. Mesa, S. Marino, M. Bonavita +38

Recent observations of resolved cold debris disks at tens of au have revealed that gaps could be a common feature in these Kuiper belt analogues. Such gaps could be evidence for th…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 18 cited

HD 117214 debris disk: scattered-light images and constraints on the presence of planets

N. Engler, C. Lazzoni, R. Gratton +34

We performed observations of the Sco-Cen F star HD 117214 aiming at a search for planetary companions and the characterization of the debris disk structure. HD 117214 was observed…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 37 cited

The SPHERE view of the jet and the envelope of RY Tau

A. Garufi, L. Podio, F. Bacciotti +40

Jets are rarely associated with pre-main-sequence intermediate-mass stars. Optical and near-IR observations of jet-driving sources are often hindered by the presence of a natal env…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 57 cited

Optical polarized phase function of the HR\,4796A dust ring

J. Milli, N. Engler, H. M. Schmid +24

The scattering properties of the dust originating from debris discs are still poorly known. The analysis of scattered light is however a powerful remote-sensing tool to understand…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 16 cited

Two cold belts in the debris disk around the G-type star NZ Lup

A. Boccaletti, P. Thébault, N. Pawellek +36

Planetary systems hold the imprint of the formation and of the evolution of planets especially at young ages, and in particular at the stage when the gas has dissipated leaving mos…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 16 cited

Mapping of shadows cast on a protoplanetary disk by a close binary system

V. D'Orazi, R. Gratton, S. Desidera +47

For a comprehensive understanding of planetary formation and evolution, we need to investigate the environment in which planets form: circumstellar disks. Here we present high-cont…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 700 cited

Discovery of a planetary-mass companion within the gap of the transition disk around PDS 70

M. Keppler, M. Benisty, A. Müller +123

Young circumstellar disks are of prime interest to understand the physical and chemical conditions under which planet formation takes place. Only very few detections of planet cand…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 213 cited

Shadows and spirals in the protoplanetary disk HD 100453

M. Benisty, T. Stolker, A. Pohl +46

Understanding the diversity of planets requires to study the morphology and the physical conditions in the protoplanetary disks in which they form. We observed and spatially resolv…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 59 cited

Discovery of concentric broken rings at sub-arcsec separations in the HD 141569A gas-rich, debris disk with VLT/SPHERE

C. Perrot, A. Boccaletti, E. Pantin +45

Transition disks correspond to a short stage between the young protoplanetary phase and older debris phase. Along this evolutionary sequence, the gas component disappears leaving r…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 146 cited

First light of the VLT planet finder SPHERE. IV. Physical and chemical properties of the planets around HR8799

M. Bonnefoy, A. Zurlo, J. L. Baudino +63

The system of four planets around HR8799 offers a unique opportunity to probe the physics and chemistry at play in the atmospheres of self-luminous young (~30 Myr) planets. We rece…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 184 cited

First light of the VLT planet finder SPHERE. III. New spectrophotometry and astrometry of the HR8799 exoplanetary system

A. Zurlo, A. Vigan, R. Galicher +70

The planetary system discovered around the young A-type HR8799 provides a unique laboratory to: a) test planet formation theories, b) probe the diversity of system architectures at…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 156 cited

Performance of the VLT Planet Finder SPHERE II. Data analysis and Results for IFS in laboratory

D. Mesa, R. Gratton, A. Zurlo +33

We present the performance of the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) of SPHERE, the high-contrast imager for the ESO VLT telescope designed to perform imaging and spectroscopy of ex…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 91 cited

Performance of the VLT Planet Finder SPHERE I. Photometry and astrometry precision with IRDIS and IFS in laboratory

A. Zurlo, A. Vigan, D. Mesa +26

The new planet finder for the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE), just had its first light in Paranal. A dedicated instr…