Papers on Coronagraphic Imaging of Exoplanets

Locally Optimized Combination of Images (LOCI)

• Angular Differential Imaging: A Powerful High-Contrast Imaging Technique
  Marois et al. (2006)
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 641, Issue 1, pp. 556-564.

• A New Algorithm for Point-Spread Function Subtraction in High-Contrast Imaging: A Demonstration with Angular Differential Imaging
  Lafreniere et al. (2007)
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 660, Issue 1, pp. 770-780

• Improving the Speckle Noise Attenuation of Simultaneous Spectral Differential Imaging with a Focal Plane Holographic Diffuser
  Lafreniere et al. (2007)
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 661, Issue 2, pp. 1208-1217

• Confidence Level and Sensitivity Limits in High-Contrast Imaging
  Marois et al. (2008)
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 673, Issue 1, pp. 647-656

• Exoplanet imaging with LOCI processing: photometry and astrometry with the new SOSIE pipeline
  Marois et al. (2010)
  Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7736, pp. 77361J-77361J-12 (2010).

Observations of HR 8799

• Direct Imaging of Multiple Planets Orbiting the Star HR 8799
  Marois et al. (2008)
  Science, Volume 322, Issue 5906, pp. 1348-

• Images of a fourth planet orbiting HR 8799
  Marois et al. (2010)
  Nature, Volume 468, Issue 7327, pp. 1080-1083

• Near-infrared Spectroscopy of the Extrasolar Planet HR 8799 b
  Bowler et al. (2010)
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 723, Issue 1, pp. 850-868.

• An image of an exoplanet separated by two diffraction beamwidths from a star
  Serabyn et al. (2010)
  Nature, Volume 464, Issue 7291, pp. 1018-1020 (2010).

• M-band Imaging of the HR 8799 Planetary System Using an Innovative LOCI-based Background Subtraction Technique
  Galicher et al. (2011)
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 739, Issue 2, article id. L41

• Orbital Motion of HR 8799 b, c, d Using Hubble Space Telescope Data from 1998: Constraints on Inclination, Eccentricity, and Stability
  Soummer et al. (2011)
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 741, Issue 1, article id. 5

Related Papers

• Photometric characterization of exoplanets using angular and spectral differential imaging
  Vigan et al. (2010)
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 407, Issue 1, pp. 71-82.

• Speckle Suppression with the Project 1640 Integral Field Spectrograph
  Crepp et al. (2011)
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 729, Issue 2, article id. 132 (2011).

• A Data-Cube Extraction Pipeline for a Coronagraphic Integral Field Spectrograph
  Zimmerman et al. (2011)
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 123, issue 904, pp.746-763

• Simulation of planet detection with the SPHERE integral field spectrograph
  Mesa et al. (2011)
  Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 529, id.A131

• High angular resolution detection of Beta Pictoris b at 2.18 μm
  Bonnefoy et al. (2011)
  Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 528, id.L15

Statistical Approaches to Exoplanet Detection

• Application of the Hotelling and ideal observers to detection and localization of exoplanets
  Caucci et al. (2007)
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 24, issue 12, p. B13

• Spatio-temporal Hotelling observer for signal detection from image sequences
  Caucci et al. (2009)
  Optics Express, vol. 17, issue 13, p. 10946, 2009

• Objective assessment of image quality. IV. Application to adaptive optics
  Barrett et al. (2006)
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 23, Issue 12, pp.3080-3105

• Enhanced faint companion photometry and astrometry using wavelength diversity
  Burke and Devaney (2010)
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 27, issue 11, p. A246

• Optimal method for exoplanet detection by angular differential imaging
  Mugnier et al. (2009)
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 26, issue 6, p. 1326

• Fainter and closer: finding planets by symmetry breaking
  Ribak and Gladysz (2008)
  Optics Express, vol. 16, issue 20, p. 15553

• Detection of Faint Companions through Stochastic Speckle Discrimination
  Gladysz and Christou (2008)
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 684, Issue 2, pp. 1486-1495.

• Temporal Variability and Statistics of the Strehl Ratio in Adaptive-Optics Images
  Gladysz et al. (2008)
  The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 120, Issue 872, pp. 1132-1143.

• Reference-Less Detection, Astrometry, and Photometry of Faint Companions with Adaptive Optics
  Gladysz and Christou (2009)
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 698, Issue 1, pp. 28-42 (2009).

• Statistics of intensity in adaptive-optics images and their usefulness for detection and photometry of exoplanets
  Gladysz et al. (2010)
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 27, Issue 11, p.A64-A75, 2010

• An Improved Technique for the Photometry and Astrometry of Faint Companions
  Burke et al. (2009)
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 121, issue 881, pp.767-777

• Analytical expression of long-exposure adaptive-optics-corrected coronagraphic image. First application to exoplanet detection
  Sauvage et al.
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 27, issue 11, p. 157