Direct Imaging Detection of Low-Mass Companions Orbiting Giant
Stars and Binaries

Justin Crepp, Caltech

High-contrast imaging is a rapidly maturing field. Observations
now achieve sensitivities that are sufficient to complement the
discoveries made with the Doppler radial velocity method and
others. In the near future, technology developments in adaptive
optics and coronagraphy will further enhance our understanding
of planet formation and evolution. Like the other techniques,
direct imaging observations will eventually explore as large
of a parameter space as possible, including stellar mass and
multiplicity. In this talk, I will discuss the prospects and
motivation for targeting large angular diameter stars and
close-separation binaries from the ground and space.