Michael Meyer

TL;DR: In this article, the authors constrained the mass of possible companions responsible for the gap to 1-2-MJup for planets located inside the gap and to less than 5-MJ up for separations down to 20-AU from the host star.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine the results of the previously published VLT/NaCo large program with the results from 12 past imaging surveys to constitute a statistical sample of 199 FGK stars within 100 pc, including 3 stars with sub-stellar companions.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe the NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry (AMI) mode to help potential observers understand its underlying principles, present some sample science cases, explain its operational observing strategies, and indicate how AMI proposals can be developed with data simulations, and how the AMI data can be analyzed.

TL;DR: The first light, adaptive optics assisted, integral field spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is HARMONI as discussed by the authors , which provides the ELT's diffraction limited spectroscopic capability across the near-infrared wavelength range.

TL;DR: In this article, an emerging frontier of exoplanet studies is identifying which of these small planets are actually habitable (have all necessary conditions for life) and, of those, which are earth-like.