4 papers
Unveiling the Infrared Excess of SIPS J2045-6332: Evidence for a Young Stellar Object with Potential Low-Mass Companion
Michiharu Hyogo, Thomas P. Bickle, Joseph R. Biggs +20
The Disk Detective project, a citizen science initiative, aims to identify circumstellar discs around stars by detecting objects with infrared (IR) excess using data from the Wide-…
Sequencing Silicates in the IRS Debris Disk Catalog I: Methodology for Unsupervised Clustering
Cicero X. Lu, Tushar Mittal, Christine H. Chen +10
Debris disks, which consist of dust, planetesimals, planets, and gas, offer a unique window into the mineralogical composition of their parent bodies, especially during the critica…
MIRI MRS Observations of Beta Pictoris II. The Spectroscopic Case for a Recent Giant Collision
Christine H. Chen, Cicero X. Lu, Kadin Worthen +17
Modeling observations of the archetypal debris disk around Pic, obtained in 2023 January with the MIRI MRS on board JWST, reveals significant differences compared with that ob…
SPHEREx: NASA's Near-Infrared Spectrophotmetric All-Sky Survey
Brendan P. Crill, Michael Werner, Rachel Akeson +51
SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer, is a NASA MIDEX mission planned for launch in 2024. SPHEREx will carry ou…