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20192026
most citedThe Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics From 10-100 AU

476 citations · 703 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects. IV. Detailed Imaging of the Protoplanetary Disk around TW Hya

Yu-Chia Lin, Jarron Leisenring, Schuyler G. Wolff +14

As the nearest protoplanetary disk to Earth ( pc), TW Hya is one of the most studied protoplanetary disks and a critical benchmark for testing planet formation theories.…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: calibration strategy for the Mueller matrix using on-sky sources

Toshiyuki Mizuki, Justin Hom, Bertrand Mennesson +14

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will provide space-based polarimetric observations of circumstellar disks and exoplanetary systems. Accurate reconstruc…

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: target database and tools

Dmitry Savransky, Rifah Tasnim, Saanika Choudhary +13

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in Fall 2026, will carry the Coronagraph Instrument, which will, for the first time, demonstrate high-contrast imaging with act…

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: trials and triumphs of designing an observing program for a technology demonstration instrument

Schuyler G. Wolff, Vanessa P. Bailey, Justin Hom +19

The Coronagraph Instrument onboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope serves as a crucial technology pathfinder for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, with on-sky verification of…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: pre-launch reference star list and impact of reference star properties on post-processing performance

Justin Hom, Schuyler G. Wolff, Jessica Gersh-Range +51

The upcoming Roman Coronagraph will be the first high-contrast instrument in space capable of high-order wavefront sensing and control technologies, a critical technology demonstra…

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.SR2026

The Companions to B and A Stars Snapshot (C-BASS) Survey: I. Discovery of a Young Brown Dwarf Companion to HIP 17453

Marah Brinjikji, Adam J. Smith, Jennifer Patience +26

We report the detection of a new brown dwarf companion to HIP 17453 A, a chemically peculiar A0V star located at a distance of 81 pc. HIP 17453 A was observed with high-resolution…

astro-ph.IM2026

Low Thrust Electric Propulsion Mission Concepts For a 3-Meter Class Space Telescope

Yael M. Brynjegard-Bialik, Mohamed Nassif, Drew Latta +12

Space-based telescopes benefit from operating in stable orbital environments with reduced exposure to radiation and thermal fluctuations in order to minimize cost and maximize time…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Lazuli Space Observatory: Architecture & Capabilities

Arpita Roy, Stuart Feldman, Pete Klupar +51

The Lazuli Space Observatory is a 3-meter aperture astronomical facility designed for rapid-response observations and precision astrophysics across visible to near-infrared wavelen…

astro-ph.EP2025

Roman coronagraph simulations of exozodi observations in the presence of wavefront errors

Jorge Llop-Sayson, Vanessa P. Bailey, Justin Hom +6

The Coronagraph Instrument on board of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will demonstrate key technologies that will prepare the ground for the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Th…

astro-ph.SR2025

CoronaGraph Instrument Reference stars for Exoplanets (CorGI-REx) I. Preliminary Vetting and Implications for the Roman Coronagraph and Habitable Worlds Observatory

Justin Hom, Schuyler G. Wolff, Catherine A. Clark +28

The upcoming Roman Coronagraph will be the first high-contrast instrument in space capable of high-order wavefront sensing and control technologies, a critical technology demonstra…

astro-ph.IM2025

Progress toward a demonstration of high contrast imaging at ultraviolet wavelengths

Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya M. Anche, Christopher B. Mendillo +9

NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to achieve starlight suppression to the level for the detection and spectral characterization of Earth-like exoplanets. Br…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

The Disks In Scorpius-Centaurus Survey (DISCS) I: Four Newly-Resolved Debris Disks in Polarized Intensity Light

Justin Hom, Thomas M. Esposito, Katie A. Crotts +8

The presence of infrared excesses around stars directly correlates to spatially-resolved imaging detections of circumstellar disks at both mm and optical/near-infrared wavelengths.…

astro-ph.IM2025

Performance predictions and contrast limits for an ultraviolet high contrast imaging testbed

Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya M. Anche, Christopher B. Mendillo +7

NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) concept and the 2020 Decadal Survey's recommendation to develop a large space telescope to "detect and characterize Earth-like extrasolar…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 4 cited

Polarization aberrations in next-generation Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMTs). II. Influence of segment-to-segment coating variations on high-contrast imaging and polarimetry

Jaren N. Ashcraft, Ramya M. Anche, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +8

Direct exo-Earth imaging is a key science goal for astronomy in the next decade. This ambitious task imposes a target contrast of ~10^-7 at wavelengths from I to J-band. In our pri…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

The Roman coronagraph community participation program: observation planning

Schuyler G. Wolff, Jason Wang, Karl Stapelfeldt +18

The Coronagraphic Instrument onboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is an important stepping stone towards the characterization of habitable, rocky exoplanets. In a technolo…

astro-ph.EP2024

A PyTorch Benchmark for High-Contrast Imaging Post Processing

Chia-Lin Ko, Ewan S. Douglas, Justin Hom

Direct imaging of exoplanets is a challenging task that involves distinguishing faint planetary signals from the overpowering glare of their host stars, often obscured by time-vary…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

Deepest limits on scattered light emission from the Epsilon Eridani inner debris disk with HST/STIS

Sai Krishanth P. M., Ewan S. Douglas, Ramya M. Anche +9

Epsilon Eridani ( Eri) is one of the first debris disk systems detected by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). However, the system has thus far eluded detection in scatt…

astro-ph.EP2024

Gemini Planet Imager Observations of a Resolved Low-Inclination Debris Disk Around HD 156623

Briley L. Lewis, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Thomas M. Esposito +12

The 16 Myr-old A0V star HD 156623 in the Scorpius--Centaurus association hosts a high-fractional-luminosity debris disk, recently resolved in scattered light for the first time by…

physics.ed-ph2024

A Pilot Study from the First Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience for Online Degree-Seeking Astronomy Students

Justin Hom, Jennifer Patience, Karen Knierman +2

Research-based active learning approaches are critical for the teaching and learning of undergraduate STEM majors. Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are becom…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager II: Constraints on Dust Density Distribution Using Empirically-Informed Scattering Phase Functions

Justin Hom, Jennifer Patience, Christine H. Chen +40

Spatially-resolved images of debris disks are necessary to determine disk morphological properties and the scattering phase function (SPF) which quantifies the brightness of scatte…

astro-ph.EP2023

A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager I: An Empirical Search for Perturbations from Planetary Companions in Polarized Light Images

Katie A. Crotts, Brenda C. Matthews, Gaspard Duchêne +37

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) has excelled in imaging debris disks in the near-infrared. The GPI Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) imaged twenty-four debris disks in polarized -band lig…