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astro-ph.EP2026

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE) V. Full sample characterization

V. Squicciarini, S. Desidera, G. Chauvin +109

Unbiased surveys of large stellar samples are the prime means through which the prevalence of exoplanets can be derived, and crucial constraints to planet formation models can be s…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). V. Complete observations, data reduction and analysis, detection performances, and final results

A. Chomez, P. Delorme, A. -M. Lagrange +117

During the past decade, state-of-the-art planet-finder instruments like SPHERE@VLT, coupling coronagraphic devices and extreme adaptive optics systems, unveiled, thanks to large su…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

SPHERE RefPlanets: Search for epsilon Eridani b and warm dust

C. Tschudi, H. M. Schmid, M. Nowak +35

We carried out very deep VLT/SPHERE imaging polarimetry of the nearby system Eps Eri based on 38.5 hours of integration time with a 600 - 900 nm broadband filter to search for pola…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 9 cited

An extended scattered light disk around AT Pyx -- Possible planet formation in a cometary globule

C. Ginski, R. Gratton, A. Bohn +35

To understand how the multitude of planetary systems that have been discovered come to be, we need to study systems at different evolutionary stages, with different central stars b…

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.EP2021★ 70 cited

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE) -- II. Observations, Data reduction and analysis Detection performances and early-results

M. Langlois, R. Gratton, A. -M. Lagrange +118

Over the past decades, direct imaging has confirmed the existence of substellar companions (exoplanets or brown dwarfs) on wide orbits (>10 au) from their host stars. To understand…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 29 cited

A single-armed spiral in the protoplanetary disk around HD34282 ?

J. de Boer, C. Ginski, G. Chauvin +17

During the evolution of protoplanetary disks into planetary systems we expect to detect signatures that trace mechanisms such as planet-disk interaction. Protoplanetary disks displ…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 230 cited

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). III. The demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with SPHERE

A. Vigan, C. Fontanive, M. Meyer +108

The SHINE project is a 500-star survey performed with SPHERE on the VLT for the purpose of directly detecting new substellar companions and understanding their formation and early…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 26 cited

Orbital and spectral characterization of the benchmark T-type brown dwarf HD 19467B

A. -L. Maire, K. Molaverdikhani, S. Desidera +42

Context. Detecting and characterizing substellar companions for which the luminosity, mass, and age can be determined independently is of utter importance to test and calibrate the…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 21 cited

RefPlanets: Search for reflected light from extra-solar planets with SPHERE/ZIMPOL

S. Hunziker, H. M. Schmid, D. Mouillet +55

RefPlanets is a guaranteed time observation (GTO) programme that uses the Zurich IMaging POLarimeter (ZIMPOL) of SPHERE/VLT for a blind search for exoplanets in wavelengths from 60…

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.EP2018★ 83 cited

A search for accreting young companions embedded in circumstellar disks: High-contrast H imaging with VLT/SPHERE

G. Cugno, S. P. Quanz, S. Hunziker +37

Aims: We want to detect and quantify observables related to accretion processes occurring locally in circumstellar disks, which could be attributed to young forming planets. We foc…

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.EP2018★ 25 cited

Orbital and spectral analysis of the benchmark brown dwarf HD 4747B

S. Peretti, D. Ségransan, B. Lavie +43

The study of high contrast imaged brown dwarfs and exoplanets depends strongly on evolutionary models. To estimate the mass of a directly imaged substellar object, its extracted ph…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 36 cited

Discovery of a brown dwarf companion to the star HIP 64892

A. Cheetham, M. Bonnefoy, S. Desidera +89

We report the discovery of a bright, brown dwarf companion to the star HIP 64892, imaged with VLT/SPHERE during the SHINE exoplanet survey. The host is a B9.5V member of the Lower-…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 37 cited

First scattered light detection of a nearly edge-on transition disk around the T Tauri star RY Lup

M. Langlois, A. Pohl, A. -M. Lagrange +41

Transition disks are considered sites of ongoing planet formation, and their dust and gas distributions could be signposts of embedded planets. The transition disk around the T Tau…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 77 cited

Dust modeling of the combined ALMA and SPHERE datasets of HD163296. Is HD163296 really a Meeus group II disk?

G. A. Muro-Arena, C. Dominik, L. B. F. M. Waters +20

Context. Multi-wavelength observations are indispensable in studying disk geometry and dust evolution processes in protoplanetary disks. Aims. We aimed to construct a 3-dimensional…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 45 cited

The HIP 79977 debris disk in polarized light

N. Engler, H. M. Schmid, Ch. Thalmann +40

We present observations of the known edge-on debris disk around HIP 79977 (HD 146897, F star in Upper Sco, 123 pc), taken with the ZIMPOL differential polarimeter of the SPHERE ins…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 205 cited

Discovery of a warm, dusty giant planet around HIP65426

G. Chauvin, S. Desidera, A. -M. Lagrange +120

The SHINE program is a large high-contrast near-infrared survey of 600 young, nearby stars. It is aimed at searching for and characterizing new planetary systems using VLT/SPHERE's…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 100 cited

Exploring dust around HD142527 down to 0.025" / 4au using SPHERE/ZIMPOL

H. Avenhaus, S. P. Quanz, H. M. Schmid +25

We have observed the protoplanetary disk of the well-known young Herbig star HD 142527 using ZIMPOL Polarimetric Differential Imaging with the VBB (Very Broad Band, ~600-900nm) fil…

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★ 197 cited

Shadows cast on the transition disk of HD 135344B. Multiwavelength VLT/SPHERE polarimetric differential imaging

T. Stolker, C. Dominik, H. Avenhaus +35

The protoplanetary disk around the F-type star HD 135344B (SAO 206462) is in a transition stage and shows many intriguing structures both in scattered light and thermal (sub-)milli…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 136 cited

First light of the VLT planet finder SPHERE. II. The physical properties and the architecture of the young systems PZ Tel and HD 1160 revisited

A. -L. Maire, M. Bonnefoy, C. Ginski +68

[Abridged] Context. The young systems PZ Tel and HD 1160, hosting known low-mass companions, were observed during the commissioning of the new planet finder SPHERE with several ima…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 113 cited

First light of the VLT planet finder SPHERE. I. Detection and characterization of the sub-stellar companion GJ 758 B

A. Vigan, M. Bonnefoy, C. Ginski +72

GJ758 B is a brown dwarf companion to a nearby (15.76 pc) solar-type, metal-rich (M/H = +0.2 dex) main-sequence star (G9V) that was discovered with Subaru/HiCIAO in 2009. From prev…