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197 candidates and 104 validated planets in K2's first five fields

scholarly article

A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris disc stars

scientific article (publication date: September 2008)

A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris disk stars. I. Probing the hot dust content around {epsilon} Eridani and {tau} Ceti with CHARA/FLUOR

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris-disc stars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris-disc stars. V. PIONIER search for variability

scientific article published in January 2016

A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris-disk stars. IV. An unbiased sample of 92 southern stars observed in H band with VLTI/PIONIER

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris-disk stars. VII. The hot-to-warm dust connection

scientific article published in July 2021

A recent history of science cases for optical interferometry

Accreting protoplanets in the LkCa 15 transition disk.

scientific article

An H-band Vector Vortex Coronagraph for the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics System

An interferometric study of the Fomalhaut inner debris disk. III. Detailed models of the exozodiacal disk and its origin

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infrared: biosignatures, habitability, and diversity

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

Characterization of the benchmark binary NLTT 33370

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterization of the gaseous companionκAndromedae b

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Characterization of the inner disk around HD 141569 A from Keck/NIRC2 l-band vortex coronagraphy

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Characterizing the atmosphere of Proxima b with a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer

Characterizing the atmosphere of Proxima b with a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Co-phasing the Large Binocular Telescope: status and performance of LBTI/PHASECam

Commissioning and first light results of an L'-band vortex coronagraph with the Keck II adaptive optics NIRC2 science instrument

Commissioning the LBTI for use as a nulling interferometer and coherent imager

Constraining the exozodiacal luminosity function of main-sequence stars: complete results from the Keck nuller mid-infrared surveys

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Constraints on HD 113337 fundamental parameters and planetary system

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Darwin--a mission to detect and search for life on extrasolar planets

scientific article

Darwin—an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets

article

Deep Exploration of ϵ Eridani with Keck Ms-band Vortex Coronagraphy and Radial Velocities: Mass and Orbital Parameters of the Giant Exoplanet

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Direct imaging of Earth-like planets: why we care about exozodis

scientific article published on 16 July 2010

Directly imaged L-T transition exoplanets in the mid-infrared

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of a point-like source and a third spiral arm in the transition disk around the Herbig Ae star MWC 758

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Does the debris disk around HD 32297 contain cometary grains?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Enabling the direct detection of earth-sized exoplanets with the LBTI HOSTS project: a progress report

Exo-zodi modeling for the large binocular telescope interferometer

scholarly article

Exoplanet detection yield of a space-based Bracewell interferometer from small to medium satellites

journal article from 'Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems' published in 2020

Exoplanet science with the LBTI: instrument status and plans

First light for GRAVITY Wide

scientific article published in September 2022

First light with ALES: A 2-5 micron adaptive optics Integral Field Spectrograph for the LBT

First-light LBT nulling interferometric observations: warm exozodiacal dust resolved within a few AU of {eta} Crv

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Fizeau interferometric imaging of Io volcanism with LBTI/LMIRcam

Fresnel rhombs as achromatic phase shifters for infrared nulling interferometry

scientific article

Hi-5: a potential high-contrast thermal near-infrared imager for the VLTI

scientific article published on 9 July 2018

High contrast imaging at the LBT: the LEECH exoplanet imaging survey

Hot circumstellar material resolved aroundβ Pic with VLTI/PIONIER

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Hot exozodiacal dust resolved around Vega with IOTA/IONIC

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Hunting for planets in the HL Tau disk

scholarly article

Imaging protoplanets: observing transition disks with non-redundant masking

scholarly article published 4 August 2016

Impact of ηEarth on the Capabilities of Affordable Space Missions to Detect Biosignatures on Extrasolar Planets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Keck/NIRC2 L’-band Imaging of Jovian-mass Accreting Protoplanets around PDS 70

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

L'-band AGPM vector vortex coronagraph's first light on LBTI/LMIRCam

article published in 2014

LEECH: A 100 Night Exoplanet Imaging Survey at the LBT

article by Andrew Skemer et al published June 2013 in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE)

scholarly article

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE)

scientific article published in December 2024

Large binocular telescope interferometer adaptive optics: on-sky performance and lessons learned

scholarly article published 21 July 2014

MARVEL, a four-telescope array for high-precision radial-velocity monitoring

scientific article published on 13 December 2020

Making high-accuracy null depth measurements for the LBTI exozodi survey

Mid-infrared high-contrast imaging of HD 114174 b: an apparent age discrepancy in a "Sirius-like" binary system

scholarly article

Models of the η Corvi Debris Disk from the Keck Interferometer, Spitzer, and Herschel

scientific article published in January 2016

Multi-phase volcanic resurfacing at Loki Patera on Io.

scientific article

Nulling data reduction and on-sky performance of the large binocular telescope interferometer

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Nulling interferometry: impact of exozodiacal clouds on the performance of future life-finding space missions

scientific article published in January 2010

Nulling interferometry: performance comparison between space and ground-based sites for exozodiacal disc detection

scientific article published in January 2008

Operation and performance of the mid-infrared camera, NOMIC, on the Large Binocular Telescope

scientific article published on 8 July 2014

Overview and prospects of the LBTI beyond the completed HOSTS survey

scientific article

Overview of LBTI: a multipurpose facility for high spatial resolution observations

PEGASE, an infrared interferometer to study stellar environments and low mass companions around nearby stars

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Parasitic interference in nulling interferometry

scientific article

Performance study of interferometric small-sats to detect exoplanets: updated exoplanet yield and application to nearby exoplanets

conference paper published in 2020

Planet formation imager: project update

scientific article

Polar-interferometry: what can be learnt from the IOTA/IONIC experiment

Prospects for the characterisation of exo-zodiacal dust with the VLTI

scientific article published on 14 August 2018

Resolving Io’s Volcanoes from a Mutual Event Observation at the Large Binocular Telescope

scholarly article

Review and scientific prospects of high-contrast optical stellar interferometry

scientific article published on 13 December 2020

Searching for Atmospheric Bioindicators in Planets around the Two Nearby Stars, Proxima Centauri and Epsilon Eridani-Test Cases for Retrieval of Atmospheric Gases with Infrared Spectroscopy

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Searching for Faint Exozodiacal Disks: Keck Results and LBTI Status

Searching for faint companions with VLTI/PIONIER. II. 92 main sequence stars from the Exozodi survey

scientific article

Space-based infrared interferometry to study exoplanetary atmospheres

Spatially resolved M-band emission from Io's Loki Patera-Fizeau imaging at the 22.8 M LBT

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Target selection for the LBTI exozodi key science program

scholarly article

Technical requirements and optical design of the Hi-5 spectrometer

conference paper published in 2022

The HOSTS Survey for Exozodiacal Dust: Observational Results from the Complete Survey

scientific article

The HOSTS Survey: Evidence for an Extended Dust Disk and Constraints on the Presence of Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone of β Leo

scientific article

The HOSTS Survey—Exozodiacal Dust Measurements for 30 Stars

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

The HOSTS survey for exo-zodiacal dust: preliminary results and future prospects

scientific article

The LBTI Fizeau imager - I. Fundamental gain in high-contrast imaging

scientific article published in January 2017

The LBTI Fizeau imager - II. Sensitivity of the PSF and the MTF to adaptive optics errors and to piston errors

scientific article published in January 2017

The LBTI hunt for observable signatures of terrestrial systems (HOSTS) survey: a key NASA science program on the road to exoplanet imaging missions

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system(Corrigendum)

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey: Limits on Planet Occurrence Rates under Conservative Assumptions

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The LEECH exoplanet imaging survey: orbit and component masses of the intermediate-age, late-type binary NO UMa

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer & Adaptive Optics System: On-sky Performance and Results

article by Vanessa Bailey et al published June 2013 in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

The Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): a space mission for mid-infrared nulling interferometry

scientific article published on 28 August 2024

The VORTEX project: first results and perspectives

The W. M. Keck observatory infrared vortex coronagraph and a first image of HIP 79124 B

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The path to interferometry in space

The path towards high-contrast imaging with the VLTI: the Hi-5 project

The search for worlds like our own.

scientific article published in January 2010

Three years of harvest with the vector vortex coronagraph in the thermal infrared

article

Two small temperate planets transiting nearby M dwarfs in K2 campaigns 0 and 1

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

VIP: Vortex Image Processing Package for High-contrast Direct Imaging

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

VLTI/Hi-5: detection yield predictions for young giant exoplanets

conference paper published in 2022