Deep L' and M-band Imaging for Planets Around Vega and epsilon Eridani (2008)
Heinze, A. N., Hinz, Philip M., Kenworthy, Matthew, Miller, Douglas, Sivanandam, Suresh
We have obtained deep Adaptive Optics (AO) images of Vega and epsilon Eri to search for planetary-mass companions. We observed at the MMT in the L' (3.8 micron) and M (4.8 micron) bands using Clio, a...
Hinz, Philip M., Heinze, A. N., Sivanandam, Suresh, Miller, Douglas L., Kenworthy, Matthew A., Brusa, Guido, ...
Vega may have a massive companion in a wide orbit, as evidenced by structure in its cold dust debris. We have tested this hypothesis by direct imaging with adaptive optics in the M band. The...
Clio: a 3-5 micron AO planet-finding camera (2006)
Sivanandam, S., Hinz, P. M., Heinze, A. N., Freed, M., Breuninger, A. H.
Clio is an adaptive-optics camera mounted on the 6.5 meter MMT optimized for diffraction-limited L' and M-band imaging over a ~15'' field. The instrument was designed from the ground up with a large...