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most citedThe JWST Weather Report from the Nearest Brown Dwarfs I: multi-period JWST NIRSpec + MIRI monitoring of the benchmark binary brown dwarf WISE 1049AB

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astro-ph.EP2026

The JWST Sub-Jupiters Survey: Direct Imaging Discovery of a Giant Planet and a Debris Disk Around the Young M-dwarf RX J0534.0-0221

Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez, Jason J. Wang, Kevin Wagner +47

We present the discovery of RX J0534.0-0221 b, a giant planet orbiting an M-dwarf star in the Pictoris moving group. RX J0534 was originally observed with JWST/NIRCam in the F4…

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

JWST NIRCam Reveals the Largest Known M-dwarf Debris Disk Around TWA 10 and New Scattered-Light Observations of the TWA 25 Debris Disk

Katie A. Crotts, Aarynn L. Carter, Beth Biller +26

We present JWST NIRCam observations of two M-dwarf systems located in the TW Hydra association, TWA 10 and TWA 25. Both systems harbor detected debris disks in the F200W and F444W…

astro-ph.EP2026

Photometric Variability and Rotation of Beta Pictoris b from JWST NIRCam Coronagraphic Imaging

Yifan Zhou, Beth A. Biller, Aarynn L. Carter +28

We report the detection of photometric variability in the directly imaged super-Jupiter Pictoris b. Using JWST NIRCam dual-band coronagraphic imaging, we conducted a 16-hour co…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek

Ben J. Sutlieff, Markus J. Bonse, Valentin Christiaens +94

We report the direct imaging discovery of a third exoplanet in the Pictoris system. We detect Pictoris d ( Pic d) in non-coronagraphic observations obtained with VLT/ERI…

astro-ph.EP2026

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. VII. Molecular Mapping Performance with JWST/MIRI MRS: VHS 1256 b as a case study

Mathilde Mâlin, Anthony Boccaletti, Benjamin Charnay +29

VHS 1256 b was the first planetary-mass companion to be observed with the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (JWST/MIRI) using the Medium-Resolution Spectrometer…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Large-amplitude Variability Driven by Giant Dust Storms on a Planetary-mass Companion

Xianyu Tan, Xi Zhang, Mark S. Marley +17

Large-amplitude variations are commonly observed in the atmospheres of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarfs. VHS 1256B, the most variable known planet-mass object, exhibits…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Chasing the storm: Investigating the application of high-contrast imaging techniques in producing precise exoplanet light curves

Ben J. Sutlieff, David S. Doelman, Jayne L. Birkby +10

Substellar companions such as exoplanets and brown dwarfs exhibit changes in brightness arising from top-of-atmosphere inhomogeneities, providing insights into their atmospheric st…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Sensitivity to Sub-Io-sized Exosatellite Transits in the MIRI LRS Lightcurve of the Nearest Substellar Worlds

Andrew Householder, Mary Anne Limbach, Beth Biller +20

JWST's unprecedented sensitivity enables precise spectrophotometric monitoring of substellar worlds, revealing atmospheric variability driven by mechanisms operating across differe…

astro-ph.EP2025

Discovery of a Debris Disk Around TWA 20

Skyler Palatnick, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Jingwen Zhang +20

We report the discovery of a debris disk surrounding the M3 star, TWA 20, revealed by JWST coronagraphic observations using the Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam). With reference-star d…

astro-ph.EP2025

Follow-Up Exploration of the TWA 7 Planet-Disk System with JWST NIRCam

Katie A. Crotts, Aarynn L. Carter, Kellen Lawson +39

The young M-star TWA 7 hosts a bright and near face-on debris disk, which has been imaged from the optical to the submillimeter. The disk displays multiple complex substructures su…

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

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…

astro-ph.EP2023

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems IV: NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry Performance and Lessons Learned

Steph Sallum, Shrishmoy Ray, Jens Kammerer +120

We present a performance analysis for the aperture masking interferometry (AMI) mode on board the James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST/NI…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 15 cited

Measuring the variability of directly imaged exoplanets using vector Apodizing Phase Plates combined with ground-based differential spectrophotometry

Ben J. Sutlieff, Jayne L. Birkby, Jordan M. Stone +11

Clouds and other features in exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres cause variations in brightness as they rotate in and out of view. Ground-based instruments reach the high contras…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

High-contrast observations of brown dwarf companion HR 2562 B with the vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph

Ben J. Sutlieff, Alexander J. Bohn, Jayne L. Birkby +8

The vector Apodizing Phase Plate (vAPP) is a class of pupil plane coronagraph that enables high-contrast imaging by modifying the Point Spread Function (PSF) to create a dark hole…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 15 cited

Discovery of an Edge-on Circumstellar Debris Disk Around BD+45598: a Newly Identifed Member of the Pictoris Moving Group

Sasha Hinkley, Elisabeth C. Matthews, Charlène Lefevre +24

We report the discovery of a circumstellar debris disk viewed nearly edge-on and associated with the young, K1 star BD+45598 using high-contrast imaging at 2.2m obtain…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 19 cited

Constraining the presence of giant planets in two-belt debris disk systems with VLT/SPHERE direct imaging and dynamical arguments

Elisabeth Matthews, Sasha Hinkley, Arthur Vigan +10

Giant, wide-separation planets often lie in the gap between multiple, distinct rings of circumstellar debris: this is the case for the HR\,8799 and HD\,95086 systems, and even the…