Detection of giant planets with the GTC

Rebolo, R.
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Science with the GTC (Eds. José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, Francisco Garzón López, and Verónica Melo Martín) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 16, pp. 89-91 (2003) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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Detection of objects with masses close to that of Jupiter in various astrophysical contexts will be feasible with GTC first light instruments. The mid-infrared camera, CANARICAM, will contribute to the detection and characterization of these objects orbiting around F-M stars and brown dwarfs. It will allow us to explore a domain of orbital radii complementary to that of current radial velocity searches. The imaging and spectroscopic capabilities of OSIRIS are very well suited to the study of free-floating protojupiters in low extinction young star forming regions. Both types of studies are crucial to our understanding of the processes that originate giant planets.