Description
The {beta} Pictoris system with its debris disk and a massive giant planet orbiting at ~=9AU represents an ideal laboratory for studying giant planet formation and evolution as well as planet-disk interactions. {beta} Pic b can also help in testing brightness-mass relations at young ages. Other planets, yet undetected, may of course be present in the system. We aim at directly constraining the mass of {beta} Pic b and at searching for additional jovian planets on orbits closer than typically 2AU.
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