most citedAccretion Burst Crystallizes Silicates in a Planet-Forming Disk

7 citations

10 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The paper summarizes 70 science cases for the proposed NASA Habitable Worlds Observatory, outlining the observational needs across four scientific pillars and detailing required ca…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Pre-Main Sequence Binary Viewed Through its Circumbinary Disk: A New Phase for KH 15D

Catrina M. Hamilton, Adi B. Chacko, George A. Carson +16

The binary T Tauri system, KH 15D, is poised to provide unprecedented detail of gas and ices located between 3-5 AU of its circumbinary disk over the next few years. We analy…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Detailed Analysis of Intermediate-scale Structure in Optical Extinction Curves: Expanded Census and Two-family Classification

C. M. Gunasekera, M. Decleir, K. D. Gordon +4

The features of interstellar extinction curves serve as powerful diagnostics for interstellar dust, revealing information about its composition, size distribution, and the physical…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST PRIMER: Post-starburst galaxies dominate the low-mass quiescent galaxy population since z~2

Thomas de Lisle, David T. Maltby, Omar Almaini +10

We present the evolution of the stellar mass functions for photometrically selected star-forming, passive and post-starburst galaxies, based on JWST PRIMER observations of the Ultr…

astro-ph.IM2026

Segment-level thermal sensitivity analysis for exo-Earth coronagraphy with segmented space telescopes

Ananya Sahoo, Laurent Pueyo, Iva Laginja +5

The paper develops a thermal stability error budget for segmented space telescopes, linking temperature gradients on individual mirror segments to wavefront errors and defining seg…

astro-ph.EP20267 cited

Accretion Burst Crystallizes Silicates in a Planet-Forming Disk

Jeong-Eun Lee, Chul-Hwan Kim, Jaeyeong Kim +13

The paper reports JWST mid‑infrared observations of the bursting protostar EC 53 that reveal crystalline silicate emission appearing only during an accretion burst, providing direc…