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n/a, EAS Publications Series, EDP Sciences 22, pp. 69-83 (2006)
SPHERE is a second generation instrument for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) which will aim at directly detecting the intrinsic flux of young giant exoplanets thanks to a dedicated extreme adaptive optics system and coronagraphs. Exoplanet detection in the near-infrared will be performed in parallel with an integral field spectrograph and a...
Direct detection and spectral characterisation of extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting but also one of the most challenging areas in modern astronomy. For its second-generation instrumentation on the VLT, ESO has supported two phase A studies for a so-called 'Planet Finder' dedicated instrument. Based on the results of these two...
ESO Messenger, 125, p. 29 (2006)