High-contrast imaging of Sirius A with VLT/SPHERE: looking for giant planets down to one astronomical unit
@article{Vigan2015HighcontrastIO, title={High-contrast imaging of Sirius A with VLT/SPHERE: looking for giant planets down to one astronomical unit}, author={A. Vigan and C. Gry and G. Salter and D. Mesa and D. Homeier and C. Moutou and F. Allard}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2015}, volume={454}, pages={129-143} }
Sirius has always attracted a lot of scientific interest, especially after the discovery of a companion white dwarf at the end of the 19th century. Very early on, the existence of a potential third bodywas put forward to explain some of the observed properties of the system. We present new coronagraphic observations obtained with VLT/SPHERE (Very Large Telescope/SpectroPolarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch) that explore, for the very first time, the innermost regions of the system down… CONTINUE READING
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