Future Searches for Planets and Brown Dwarfs

• Infrared searches
  • ISO
    Infrared Space Observatory - in orbit through 1997 - operates from 3 - 240 micrometers wavelength - looks at things the temperature of dry ice (and slightly warmer) - telescope is immersed in liquid helium - can find stellar disks and BD companions or individuals, but limited sky coverage
  • DENIS
    DEep Near-Infrared survey of the Southern Sky
    ESO 1 meter telescope - J, H, K camera in operation
    expect to find ~ 360,000 new low mass stars
    
  • 2MASS - 2 micron All Sky Survey (U Mass)
    two 1.3 meter telescopes under construction
  • SIRTF - Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (NASA)
    

• New Telescopes
  • HST 1997 servicing NICMOS (Near Infrared Camera and Multi Object Spectrometer
  • HST 2002 servicing - corongraphic camera (?)
  • Large Binocular Telescope - Mount Graham, AZ
  • Hobby.Eberly Telescope - Mount Fowlkes, TX
  • Keck I, II (NIRC, HIRES, CCD)
  with Ad. Optics next generation can see J objects at 8 pc

• Stellar interferometers
  • Palomar Testbed Interferometer 2.2 microns
    
  • Keck Interferometer
    
  • USNO/NRL Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer
    
  • VLT Interferometer - Cerro Paranal, Chile - 0.5 - 20 microns
    
  • SIM - Space Interferometry Mission
    
  • POINTS - Precision Optical INTerferometer in Space
    

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