Program: GS-2011B-Q-501
| Title: | NICI Extrasolar Planet Search Campaign (II) |
| PI: | Michael Liu |
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Abstract
We propose to conduct a multi-year direct imaging survey for massive
(>1 Mjup) planets around nearby young stars using NICI on Gemini-South.
The discovery of even a single planet would be significant finding. The
broader goals of the NICI Campaign are to address three key issues in the
extrasolar planet science: (1) the mass and separation distributions of
planets in the outer regions (>5-10 AU) of other solar systems, (2) the
dependence of planet frequency on stellar host mass, and (3) the SEDs of
young extrasolar planets. Our collaboration comprises a team of
established observers, instrumentalists, and theorists, possessing the
broad range of expertise needed for all phases of this campaign: to
contribute substantively to NICI commissioning and optimization, to
implement a multi-year AO search program, and to follow-up and fully
interpret exoplanet discoveries.
Publications using this program's data
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[ADS] JWST-TST High Contrast: JWST/NIRCam Observations of the Young Giant Planet β Pic b
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[ADS] A Model-independent Mass and Moderate Eccentricity for β Pic b
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[ADS] First light of the VLT planet finder SPHERE. II. The physical properties and the architecture of the young systems PZ Telescopii and HD 1160 revisited
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[ADS] High-contrast imaging of ɛ Eridani with ground-based instruments
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[ADS] Magellan Adaptive Optics First-light Observations of the Exoplanet β Pic b. II. 3–5 μm Direct Imaging with MagAO+Clio, and the Empirical Bolometric Luminosity of a Self-luminous Giant Planet
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[ADS] The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The Orbit of the Young Exoplanet β Pictoris b
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[ADS] The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The Frequency of Giant Planets around Young B and A Stars
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[ADS] Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modeling
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[ADS] The Gemini/NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The Frequency of Planets around Young Moving Group Stars
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[ADS] The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The Companion Detection Pipeline
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[ADS] Precise Dynamical Masses and Orbital Fits for beta Pic β and β Pic c
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[ADS] MIRI MRS Observations of β Pictoris. I. The Inner Dust, the Planet, and the Gas