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most citedThe JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 Micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b

176 citations · 946 across the 57 of their papers we have counts for

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64 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

A Candidate Innermost Fifth Planet In the HR 8799 System Revealed By JWST NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry

Jayke S. Nguyen, Louis Desdoigts, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum +20

We detect a candidate fifth planet in the HR 8799 system, directly imaged with the JWST/NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometer (AMI). The detected source lies just above a con…

astro-ph.SR2026

The JWST/NIRCam Scattered Light Disks GTO 2780 program: panchromatic coronagraphic imaging of the HD 10647, HD 32297, HD 61005, HD 107146, and HD 181327 debris disk systems

András Gáspár, Jarron M. Leisenring, Schuyler Grace Wolff +13

Debris disks, composed of rocks, boulders, planetesimals, and the dust produced in their collisions, present the most readily observable components of mature planetary systems. The…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: data reduction pipeline astrometric calibration

Amanda Chavez, Jason Wang, Vanessa P. Bailey +5

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be equipped with a Technology Demonstration Coronagraph Instrument that will push the current limits of high contrast imaging for exoplan…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: early calibration plan and pilot observation of a companion

Julien H. Girard, Eric Cady, Neil T. Zimmerman +42

Roman is set to launch in weeks! The Coronagraph Instrument - technology pathfinder for future direct imaging missions - is ready to fly too. According to predictions, laboratory t…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: Observation planning and data reduction for polarimetric mode

Ramya M Anche, Toshiyuki Mizuki, Justin Hom +25

Reflected-light polarimetry of exoplanets constrains and resolves degeneracies in atmospheric properties, while polarized light observations of debris disks enable the characteriza…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: data reduction pipeline design and implementation

Jason J. Wang, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Marie Ygouf +39

The Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will demonstrate a series of technologies and techniques to enable the direct detection of reflected-light planets with space-based…

astro-ph.EP2026

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems VIII: patchy forsterite and enstatite clouds in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b, retrieval lessons learned and outlook to the future

Niall Whiteford, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Ben Burningham +123

JWST defines a new era for the data-driven approach of retrieval modelling, which has become a cornerstone tool for the statistical inference of exoplanetary and brown dwarf proper…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 12 cited

The compositions of the HR 8799 planets reflect accretion of both solids and metal-enriched gas

Jerry W. Xuan, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Yayaati Chachan +24

With four giant planets (, $T_\rm{eff}\sim900-1200$ K) orbiting between 15-70 au, HR 8799 provides an unparalleled testbed for studying giant planet formatio…

physics.gen-ph2026

Photometric and Astrometric Information for Sources around HD~163296 Revealed by JWST/NIRCam Coronagraphy

Taichi Uyama, Luca Ricci, Marie Ygouf +1

Background stars observed through a circumstellar disk provide valuable benchmarks for investigating the disk's extinction properties. The HD~163296 system is an excellent case stu…

astro-ph.EP2026

Worlds Next Door. III. Indirect Evidence for Enhanced Atmospheric Metallicity and/or the Presence of Water Clouds in the Nearest Jupiter-analog Eri b

Aniket Sanghi, James Mang, Jorge Llop-Sayson +12

We present the most sensitive direct imaging search for the nearest ( pc) Jupiter-analog exoplanet, Eri b, with JWST/NIRCam coronagraphy between 4-5 m (F444W). We a…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 12 cited

Jupiter-like uniform metal enrichment in a system of multiple giant exoplanets

Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Jerry W. Xuan, Yayaati Chachan +15

The accretion of icy and rocky solids during the formation of a gas giant planet is poorly constrained and challenging to model. Refractory species, like sulfur, are only present i…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

JWST/MIRI Imaging of the Warm Dust Component of the Epsilon Eridani Debris Disk

Schuyler G. Wolff, András Gáspár, George Rieke +4

We present JWST/MIRI observations of the debris disk surrounding the nearby, solar analog Epsilon Eridani obtained as part of the Archetypal Debris Disk GTO program. Multi-waveleng…

astro-ph.IM2025

Wavefront Error Recovery and Companion Identification with the James Webb Space Telescope

Matthew De Furio, Marie Ygouf, Alexandra Greenbaum +8

The James Webb Space Telescope is orders of magnitude more sensitive than any other facility across the near to mid-infrared wavelengths. Many approved programs take advantage of i…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for Planets Orbiting ~Eridani with JWST/NIRCam

Jorge Llop-Sayson, Charles Beichman, Geoffrey Bryden +10

We present observations of \epseri~with the JWST/NIRCam coronagraph aimed at imaging planets orbiting within this system. In particular, these observations targeted (1) the Jupiter…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 9 cited

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 (Au…

astro-ph.EP2025

Probing the Outskirts of M Dwarf Planetary Systems with a Cycle 1 JWST NIRCam Coronagraphy Survey

Ellis Bogat, Joshua E. Schlieder, Kellen D. Lawson +18

The population of giant planets on wide orbits around low-mass M dwarf stars is poorly understood, but the unprecedented sensitivity of JWST NIRCam coronagraphic imaging now provid…

astro-ph.EP2025

JWST/NIRCam Coronagraphic Search for Hidden Planets in the HD~163296 Protoplanetary Disk

Taichi Uyama, Luca Ricci, Marie Ygouf +10

HD~163296 is a Herbig Ae/Be star with multiple signposts of on-going planet formation on its disk, such as prominent rings and gaps, as well as kinematic features as identified by…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Deep Search for a scattered light dust halo around Vega with the Hubble Space Telescope

Schuyler G. Wolff, András Gáspár, George H. Rieke +6

We present a provisory scattered light detection of the Vega debris disk using deep Hubble Space Telescope coronagraphy (PID 16666). At only 7.7 parsecs, Vega is immensely importan…

astro-ph.EP2024

Imaging of the Vega Debris System using JWST/MIRI

Kate Y. L. Su, Andras Gaspar, George H. Rieke +6

We present images of the Vega planetary debris disk obtained at 15.5, 23, and 25.5 microns with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on JWST. The debris system is remarkably symmetri…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Searching for Planets Orbiting Vega with the James Webb Space Telescope

Charles Beichman, Geoffrey Bryden, Jorge Llop-Sayson +15

The most prominent of the IRAS debris disk systems, Lyrae (Vega), at a distance of 7.7 pc, has been observed by both the NIRCam and MIRI instruments on the James Webb Space Tel…

astro-ph.EP2024

JWST/NIRCam Detection of the Fomalhaut C Debris Disk in Scattered Light

Kellen Lawson, Joshua E. Schlieder, Jarron M. Leisenring +20

Observations of debris disks offer important insights into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Though M dwarfs make up approximately 80% of nearby stars, very few M-d…

astro-ph.EP2024

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems V: Do Self-Consistent Atmospheric Models Represent JWST Spectra? A Showcase With VHS 1256 b

Simon Petrus, Niall Whiteford, Polychronis Patapis +119

The unprecedented medium-resolution (R~1500-3500) near- and mid-infrared (1-18um) spectrum provided by JWST for the young (140+/-20Myr) low-mass (12-20MJup) L-T transition (L7) com…

astro-ph.EP2023

Searching for Planets Orbiting Fomalhaut with JWST/NIRCam

Marie Ygouf, Charles Beichman, Jorge Llop-Sayson +20

We report observations with the JWST/NIRCam coronagraph of the Fomalhaut system. This nearby A star hosts a complex debris disk system discovered by the IRAS satellite. Observation…

astro-ph.EP2023

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems III: Aperture Masking Interferometric Observations of the star HIP 65426 at 3.8 um

Shrishmoy Ray, Steph Sallum, Sasha Hinkley +121

We present aperture masking interferometry (AMI) observations of the star HIP 65426 at as a part of the JWST Direct Imaging Early Release Science (ERS) program obtai…