MIRACLES
The MIRACLES (Mid-InfraRed Atmospheric Characterization of Long-period Exoplanets and Substellar companions) survey was designed for photometric characterization of directly imaged planetary and substellar companions at 4–5 μm. Until now it was carried out with the NAOS-CONICA (NACO) AO system and infrared that was mounted on the Unit Telescope 1 (UT1) of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The primary sample consists of 15 targets that were observed with the Brackett-α and/or M′ filters. It is envisioned that this project will be continued once the ERIS instrument is online.
Recent MIRACLES publications:
Stolker et al. 2020 external pageMIRACLES: atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets and substellar companions at 4-5 μm. I. Photometric analysis of β Pic b, HIP 65426 b, PZ Tel B, and HD 206893 B