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The Impact of Transiting Planet Science on the Next Generation of Direct-Imaging Planet Searches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

Joseph C. Carson
Joseph C. Carson*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Within the next five years, a number of direct-imaging planet search instruments, like the VLT SPHERE instrument, will be coming online. To successfully carry out their programs, these instruments will rely heavily on a-priori information on planet composition, atmosphere, and evolution. Transiting planet surveys, while covering a different semi-major axis regime, have the potential to provide critical foundations for these next-generation surveys. For example, improved information on planetary evolutionary tracks may significantly impact the insights that can be drawn from direct-imaging statistical data. Other high-impact results from transiting planet science include information on mass-to-radius relationships as well as atmospheric absorption bands. The marriage of transiting planet and direct-imaging results may eventually give us the first complete picture of planet migration, multiplicity, and general evolution.

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Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S253: Transiting Planets , May 2008 , pp. 556 - 559
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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