Direct imaging of planetary mass companions and circumstellar debris disks

Gas giant planets at the widest separations can only be identified via high contrast imaging. Studying these planets allows us to understand the full architecture of exoplanetary systems, and to probe whether these objects are formed via a core accretion or a disk instability process. The high contr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matthews, Elisabeth Christina
Other Authors: Hinkley, Sasha
Published: University of Exeter 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.761801