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Page 1: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Adventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics

Mike Sitko

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Page 2: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

How do planetary systems form &

evolve?

1.  Look at “baby” planetary systems "2.  look at mature planetary systems "

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Page 3: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Beyond the “frost line” ice can condense, allowing more massive planets to form

Refractories (rock, metal)

volatiles (ices & gas) and refractories

Silicates: Pyroxenes, Olivines Volatile Ices

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(Mg,Fe,Ca)SiO3,(Mg,Fe)2SiO4 H2O,CH 4 ,NH 3

Page 4: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Jupiter

Earth

Super-Earths

Hot Jupiters

Jupiter

55 Cancri e

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Page 5: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Okay, where did all the “Hot Jupiters” come from?

Cannot form inside the snow/frost line

Formed further out & migrated - planet-disk drag

A nice “little” (8 MB) of one example, by Phil Armitage, U Colorado

start

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Page 6: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Also, planetary migration

“Nice Model”""“Grand Tack”"

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Page 7: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

“Pre-Transitional Disks”

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Page 8: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

High Angular Resolution Astrophysics:

• Direct Imaging• Interferometry

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Page 9: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Adaptive Optics

Page 10: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

In actual operation....

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Page 11: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Subaru High Contrast Instrumentation

Subaru – 8.2 m telescope"AO 188"Classical Lyot Coronagraph"HiCIAO – NIR Science camera"Direct Imaging"Simultaneous Differential Imaging"Polarization Differential Imaging"Modes can be combined"

Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru

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Page 12: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

SAO 206462

from Muto et al.2012, "ApJL, 748, L22"

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Page 13: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

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Page 14: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Inner Disk Structure from InterferometryVery Large Telescope Interferometer - VLTILargest baseline 130 m.

Spatial resolution - a few milli-arcsec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5GzsdwdnWMSSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016

Page 15: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Non-Redundant Sparse Aperture Mask Interferometry

Sallum & Follette 2015

Protoplanets in a disk

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Page 16: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

V1247 Ori, a Gapped Pre-Transitional Disk

from Kraus et al. 2013, ApJ, 768, 80

(like HD 142527)

VLTIKeck Interf.

Gemini Speckle

Keck SAM

Page 17: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

The New Reality!

Subaru Telescope SCExAO

Apodized Spot

“Extreme Adaptive Optics”

Also SPHERE (VLT), GPI (Gemini)SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016

Page 18: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)

HL Tau"

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Page 19: Adventures in High Angular Resolution AstrophysicsAdventures in High Angular Resolution Astrophysics Mike Sitko SSI/CEPS - 27/4/2016 How do planetary systems form & evolve? 1. Look

Large Binocular TelescopeMt. Graham, Arizona

Expected spatial resolution ~0.01 arcsec

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