VLT/NACO & VLT/ERIS
The NACO Imaging Survey for Planets around Young stars (ISPY) is a large Guaranteed Time Observing (GTO) project to directly image extra-solar planets primarily in the L-band at the ESO's Paranal observatory. The survey started in December 2015 and last observations are planned for 2020. The project is jointly led by the three partners of the former PRIMA-DDL consortium MPIA Heidelberg, ZAH-LSW Heidelberg, and University of Geneva, and our group was invited as a scientific partner.
More details can be found on the external page NACO-ISP Website.
Recent NACO-ISPY publications:
Cugno et al. 2019 external page ISPY - NaCo Imaging Survey for Planets around Young stars. A young companion candidate embedded in the R CrA cloud
Launhardt et al. 2020 external page ISPY-NACO Imaging Survey for Planets around Young stars. Survey description and results from the first 2.5 years of observations
Cheetham et al. 2019 external page Spectral and orbital characterisation of the directly imaged giant planet HIP 65426 b
NACO-IPSY Pictures
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The RCrA B substellar companion imaged by the VLT/NaCo instrument (Source: Cugno et al., 2019) -
Spectral fit of the gas giant planet HIP65426b (Source: Cheetham et al, 2018)
