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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 133, Issue 6, Pages 2442-2456Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/516632
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astrometry; planetary systems; techniques : miscellaneous
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The active K2 V star epsilon Eri hosts the nearest known extrasolar planet. With an angular separation of about 100 on average, and an age of a few to several hundred megayears, epsilon Eri b is one of the prime candidates for becoming the first definitive extrasolar planet imaged directly. We present a multiepoch deep differential imaging survey performed with NACO- SDI at the VLT with the aim of finding the planet. The results are combined with recent astrometry in an attempt to further constrain the detection limits. No convincing candidate is found among the many coherent structures that constitute the residual speckle noise, which is the dominant noise at small angular scales. We present our detection limits, compare them with the estimated brightness of epsilon Eri b, and analyze how the limits can be improved further. It is found that integration time remains a very important parameter for achieving good results, even in the speckle- dominated regimes. The results yield new, improved 3 sigma upper limits on the absolute H-band ( 1.6 mu m) brightness of the 1.55 M-Jup companion of 19.1 - 19.5 mag, depending on the specific age of the system.
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