Unfortunately, it is beginning to look more and more likely that precision RV measurements will be unable to resolve the issue for a variety of reasons and we will have to wait for space - based instruments capable of performing
direct imaging searches that will (hopefully) be launched within the next decade or so.
I will present an overview of our current
direct imaging search for planets in the nearby binary - rich Scorpius - Centaurus association, as well as our discovery of one of the first directly imaged planets, Scorpion - 1b, in a hierarchical triple system.
Not exact matches
I will discuss how these findings can be used to constrain models of planet formation and how they may be used to optimize planet
searches with future
direct imaging missions, such as HabEx and LUVOIR.
This instrument will be dedicated to the
search for exoplanets through the
direct imaging techniques, with the new generation extreme adaptive optics.
The results of the
direct imaging surveys
searching for substellar companions around Sun - like stars are consistent with a combined substellar mass spectrum of planets and BDs.