sci19017 — Announcement

The Formative Years: Giant Planets vs. Brown Dwarfs

June 20, 2019

Based on preliminary results from a new Gemini Observatory survey of 531 stars with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), it appears more and more likely that large planets and brown dwarfs have very different roots. Read more at http://www.gemini.edu/node/21206. Click on the image below to play the GPI Exoplanet Survey animation.

 

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Animation showing the 617 observations conducted during GPIES from November 2014 to April 2019 (right) and the location of the stars in the southern sky (left). Open circles indicate system (like 51 Eri at 2 o’clock) which have been visited multiple times. Stars indicated by a red dot have a disk of material. Blue dots are planetary systems (with one planet at least). Brown dot are binary systems with a brown dwarf. Credits: P. Kalas, D. Savransky, R. De Rosa and GPIES.