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Occurrence Rates from Direct Imaging Surveys

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The occurrence rate of young giant planets from direct imaging surveys is a fundamental tracer of the efficiency with which planets form and migrate at wide orbital distances. These measurements have progressively converged to a value of about 1% for the most massive planets (≈5–13 M Jup) averaged over all stellar masses at separations spanning a few tens to a few hundreds of AU. The subtler statistical properties of this population are beginning to emerge with ever-increasing sample sizes: there is tentative evidence that planets on wide orbits are more frequent around stars that possess debris disks; brown dwarf companions exist at comparable (or perhaps slightly higher) rates as their counterparts in the planetary-mass regime; and the substellar companion mass function appears to be smooth and may extend down to the opacity limit for fragmentation. Within a few years, the conclusion of second-generation direct imaging surveys will enable more definitive interpretations with the ultimate goal of identifying the dominant origin of this population and uncovering its relationship to planets at smaller separations.

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Bowler, B.P., Nielsen, E.L. (2018). Occurrence Rates from Direct Imaging Surveys. In: Deeg, H., Belmonte, J. (eds) Handbook of Exoplanets . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30648-3_155-1

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