Publications (5)
The James Webb Space Telescope Mission
Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather, Randy Abbott +1004
Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized…
Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A. II. Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis
Aniket Sanghi, Charles Beichman, Dimitri Mawet +14
JWST observed our closest solar twin, Cen A, with the MIRI coronagraph in F1550C (15.5 m) at three distinct epochs between August 2024 and April 2025. For the first time w…
ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System
Yun Wang, Mark Dickinson, Lynne Hillenbrand +45
ATLAS (Astrophysics Telescope for Large Area Spectroscopy) is a concept for a NASA probe-class space mission. It is the spectroscopic follow-up mission to WFIRST, boosting its scie…
ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System
Yun Wang, Massimo Robberto, Mark Dickinson +37
ATLAS (Astrophysics Telescope for Large Area Spectroscopy) Probe is a concept for a NASA probe-class space mission. It is the follow-up space mission to WFIRST, boosting its scient…
Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits
Charles Beichman, Aniket Sanghi, Dimitri Mawet +27
We report on coronagraphic observations of the nearest solar-type star, Cen A, using the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. With three epochs of observation (A…