Clio: a 5 µm camera for the detection of giant exoplanets

Melanie Freed; Philip M. Hinz; Michael R. Meyer; N. Mark Milton; Michael Lloyd-Hart

doi:10.1117/12.550940

30 September 2004 Clio: a 5-μm camera for the detection of giant exoplanets

Melanie Freed, Philip M. Hinz, Michael R. Meyer, N. Mark Milton, Michael Lloyd-Hart

Proceedings Volume 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550940
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

We plan to take advantage of the unprecedented combination of low thermal background and high resolution provided by the 6.5m MMT's adaptive secondary mirror, to target the 3-5 micron atmospheric window where giant exoplanets are expected to be anomalously bright. We are in the process of building a 3-5 micron camera that we will use to carry out a survey to characterize the prevalence and distribution of giant planets around nearby, Sun-like stars. Sensitivity estimates show that for a 1 Gyr old G0V primary at 10 pc, we expect to detect 5 M_Jupiter and 15 M_Jupiter exoplanets at angular separations greater than 0.45-2.1" and 0.2-1.2" respectively. Monte Carlo simulations based on these sensitivity estimates and a sample of 80 young (<1 Gyr), nearby (<20 pc) M0V-F0V stars, predict the detection of 15±3 exoplanets with masses of 4-15 M_Jupiter and separations of 17-50 AU. Construction of the camera is currently underway and on-telescope testing is expected in the Fall 2004-Winter 2005.

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Melanie Freed, Philip M. Hinz, Michael R. Meyer, N. Mark Milton, and Michael Lloyd-Hart "Clio: a 5-μm camera for the detection of giant exoplanets", Proc. SPIE 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, (30 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550940

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