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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…
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…
Laboratory demonstration of low order wavefront control using light reflected off the vortex coronagraph
Clarissa R. Do Ó, Kane Sjoberg, Luke Lamitina +4
The Astro2020 Decadal Survey identified exoplanet imaging as a high priority for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), which must image and characterize exo-Earths at contrasts o…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A. II. Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis
Aniket Sanghi, Charles Beichman, Dimitri Mawet +14
JWST observed our closest solar twin, Cen A, with the MIRI coronagraph in F1550C (15.5 m) at three distinct epochs between August 2024 and April 2025. For the first time wit…
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…
JWST-TST High Contrast: Living on the Wedge, or, NIRCam Bar Coronagraphy Reveals CO in the HR 8799 and 51 Eri Exoplanets' Atmospheres
William O. Balmer, Jens Kammerer, Laurent Pueyo +19
High-contrast observations with JWST can reveal key composition and vertical mixing dependent absorption features in the spectra of directly imaged planets across the 3-5 m wave…
orbitize! v3: Orbit fitting for the High-contrast Imaging Community
Sarah Blunt, Jason Jinfei Wang, Lea Hirsch +18
orbitize! is a package for Bayesian modeling of the orbital parameters of resolved binary objects from time series measurements. It was developed with the needs of the high-contras…
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…
Implicit Electric Field Conjugation Through a Single-mode Fiber
Joshua Liberman, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Arielle Bertrou-Cantou +4
Connecting a coronagraph instrument to a spectrograph via a single-mode optical fiber is a promising technique for characterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets with ground and spac…
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…
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…
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…
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…
JWST-TST High Contrast: Achieving direct spectroscopy of faint substellar companions next to bright stars with the NIRSpec IFU
Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Marshall D. Perrin, Kielan K. W. Hoch +33
The JWST NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) presents a unique opportunity to observe directly imaged exoplanets from 3-5 um at moderate spectral resolution (R~2,700) and thereby bet…
Benefits of adding radial phase dimples on scalar coronagraph phase masks
Niyati Desai, Dimitri Mawet, Eugene Serabyn +4
Current scalar coronagraph focal plane mask designs are performance-limited by chromaticity. We investigate the effects of adding central Roddier and dual zone phase dimples to sca…
Spatially resolved imaging of the inner Fomalhaut disk using JWST/MIRI
Andras Gaspar, Schuyler Grace Wolff, George H. Rieke +9
Planetary debris disks around other stars are analogous to the Asteroid and Kuiper belts in the Solar System. Their structure reveals the configuration of small bodies and provides…
Laboratory demonstration of the wrapped staircase scalar vortex coronagraph
Niyati Desai, Garreth J. Ruane, Jorge D. Llop-Sayson +5
Of the over 5000 exoplanets that have been detected, only about a dozen have ever been directly imaged. Earth-like exoplanets are on the order of 10 billion times fainter than thei…
JWST Observations of the Enigmatic Y Dwarf WISE 1828+2650: I. Limits to a Binary Companion
Matthew De Furio, Ben W. Lew, Charles A. Beichman +20
The Y-dwarf WISE 1828+2650 is one of the coldest known Brown Dwarfs with an effective temperature of 300 K. Located at a distance of just 10 pc, previous model-based estimate…