Sculpting Circumstellar Disks Feb 2008 Alice Quillen University of Rochester.
Searching for planets sculpting “Holey Debris Disks”...
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Searching for planets sculpting “Holey Debris Disks” with the NIRC2/Vortex in L’-band
Tiffany Meshkat JPL/Caltech Postdoc
Gautam Vasisht, Dimitri Mawet
Vortex Workshop 2016
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Transits Radial Velocity Microlensing Direct Imaging
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• Inner working angle and contrast limits
• Image processing techniques
• Targets
What are the limitations on imaging outer solar system analogues?
Searching for planets in “Holey Debris Disks”
cold outer belt
HR 8799
warm inner belt!
e d
c b
Meshkat et al. 2015
HR8799
Two planets found out of only fifteen targets
Rameau et al. 2013
HD 95086 b
JClio KS, Clio L!Clio
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2011−03−21(HD 106906 b)
2013−04−04(HD 106906 b)
HD 106906 b
Bailey, Meshkat et al. 2014
L’NACO
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2013−04−04(if bkgd)
2011−03−21(if bkgd)
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2011−03−21(bkgd sources)
2011−03−21(HD 106906 b)
2013−04−04(HD 106906 b)
HD 95086 b HD 106906 b
Beta Pic b
GJ 504 b Fomalhaut b
HR 8799 bcde
51 Eri b HD 131399 b
2M1207 b
25 Northern hemisphere Herschel resolved targets with Keck/NIRC2 vortex
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Search region for each target
Interesting point sources?
Target #1 RDI
Target #2 RDI
Target #1 LLSG
0.5”
~12 AU
~11 AU
Target #2 LLSG
Target#1 Target#1
Target#2 Target#2