Looking for planets around M dwarfs with adaptive optics direct imaging

Séminaire IPAG de Philippe Delorme (IPAG), jeudi 21 mars 2013 à 11h00, IPAG seminar room

To investigate whether formation of large separation planets is correlated with stellar host mass, we systematically imaged young M dwarfs of the solar neigbhourhood with NACO adaptive optic imager at VLT. We applied the latest central star removal technics (ADI, LOCI...) to search for Jupiter mass planets around this sample. We present here what we found and what we did not found after 2 years of survey.