The LAOG-Planet Imaging Surveys

TL;DR

The LAOG-Planet Imaging Surveys utilize advanced high contrast imaging to discover and study exoplanets and brown dwarfs, revealing new insights into planetary formation and system architectures with promising future prospects.

Contribution

This paper presents the strategies, techniques, and recent discoveries of the LAOG-Planet Imaging Surveys, highlighting new planetary systems and formation mechanisms.

Findings

Discovery of giant planets likely formed like our solar system

Advancements in high contrast imaging techniques

Potential for future deep imaging instruments

Abstract

With the development of high contrast imaging techniques and infrared detectors, vast efforts have been devoted during the past decade to detect and characterize lighter, cooler and closer companions to nearby stars, and ultimately image new planetary systems. Complementary to other observing techniques (radial velocity, transit, micro-lensing, pulsar-timing), this approach has opened a new astrophysical window to study the physical properties and the formation mechanisms of brown dwarfs and planets. I here will briefly present the observing challenge, the different observing techniques, strategies and samples of current exoplanet imaging searches that have been selected in the context of the LAOG-Planet Imaging Surveys. I will finally describe the most recent results that led to the discovery of giant planets probably formed like the ones of our solar system, offering exciting and attractive perspectives for the future generation of deep imaging instruments.