DSM/DAPNIA/SAp, bāt. 709, Orme des Merisiers, CEA/Saclay
SF2A- PNP- ASHRA-
91191
Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
Presentation 1 : Oral
Observability of extra-solar planetary disks in the mid-infrared with VLT/VISIR and NGST/MIRI
J.C. Augereau, P.O. Lagage, E. Pantin
In the following years, new generations of mid-infrared instruments will
significantly increase the number of detections of faint dust disks around close Main-Sequence stars, possibly harbouring planets. We present the results of numerical simulations that aim at determining the observability of Vega-like and Kuiper-like disks in order to infer the impact of VLT/VISIR first, and subsequently of NGST/MIRI on the study of extra-solar planetary systems.