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The Science Potential of Characterizing Gas Giant Exoplanets with HWO
Beck Dacus, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Quinn Konopacky +19
With the ability to directly image Earth-like exoplanets and search their atmospheres for biosignatures, the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will also collect high sign…
The Dyn-Atmo Survey: JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of dynamical benchmark GJ 758 B
Alexander Madurowicz, Emily Rickman, Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi +22
We present new JWST/NIRSpec IFU high contrast spectroscopic observations of the brown dwarf companion GJ 758 B. Extensive radial velocity monitoring of the primary has enabled high…
The Dyn-Atmo Survey: High-contrast Imaging Spectroscopy of the Substellar Companion HD 13724 B with the JWST NIRSpec IFU
Kielan K. W. Hoch, Alex Madurowicz, Evert Nasedkin +22
We present the first spectral analysis from the JWST Cycle 3 GO Program #6362, the Dyn-Atmo Survey of dynamical-atmospheric benchmarks, characterizing the atmospheres of directly-i…
A High-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey of Directly Imaged Companion Hosts: III. Characterization of the Cold Imaged Planet Hosts AF Lep A and Indi A
Aneesh Baburaj, Quinn M. Konopacky, Christopher A. Theissen +3
JWST has enabled the measurement of carbon, oxygen, and sulfur abundances in the atmospheres of directly imaged planets. Interpretation of these abundances from a planet formation…
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…
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…
JWST-TST High Contrast: First Direct Spectroscopy of GJ 504 b reveals Clouds and Possible Metal Enrichment
Aneesh Baburaj, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Marshall Perrin +27
Characterizing the coldest directly imaged companions through direct spectroscopy has only recently become possible with the James Webb Space Telescope. We present moderate-resolut…
Hubble Science in the 2030s White Paper: High-Contrast Optical and UV Spectroscopy with HST/STIS
K. Ward-Duong, J. Debes, J. Aguilar +11
The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope currently stands as the sole space-based astronomical facility providing visible-light coronagraphic i…
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…
Direct Images of CO2 Absorption in the Atmosphere of a Super-Jupiter: Enhanced Metallicity Suggestive of Formation in a Disk
William O. Balmer, Laurent Pueyo, Ashley Messier +15
It is unclear how directly imaged substellar companions with masses near the deuterium burning limit form, because these objects are rare and their bulk properties are not diagnost…
Characterizing Earth analogs may require a moderate or high-resolution spectrograph
Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Sarah Steiger, Corey Spohn +16
A primary goal of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is to detect and measure the abundance of biosignature molecules, such as water (H2O) and oxygen (O2), in the atmosphere of…
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…
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…
A High-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey of Directly Imaged Companion Hosts: II. Diversity in C/O Ratios among Host Stars
Aneesh Baburaj, Quinn M. Konopacky, Christopher A. Theissen +2
The era of JWST has enabled measurements of abundances of elements such as C, O, and even Na, S, K, and Fe in planetary atmospheres to very high precisions (0.1 dex). Accurat…
Direct Spectroscopy of 51 Eridani b with JWST NIRSpec
Alexander Madurowicz, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Bruce Macintosh +4
We present high-contrast direct spectroscopy of the low-mass, cool exoplanet 51 Eridani b (2-4 M, 750 K) using JWST / NIRSpec in a fixed-slit configuration (F2…
JWST-TST High Contrast: Medium-resolution spectroscopy reveals a carbon-rich circumplanetary disk around the young accreting exoplanet Delorme 1 AB b
Mathilde Mâlin, Kimberly Ward-Duong, Sierra L. Grant +21
Young accreting planetary-mass objects are thought to draw material from a circumplanetary disk (CPD) composed of gas and dust. While the gas within the disk is expected to dispers…
Silicate clouds and a circumplanetary disk in the YSES-1 exoplanet system
Kielan K. W. Hoch, Melanie Rowland, Simon Petrus +26
Young exoplanets provide a critical link between understanding planet formation and atmospheric evolution. Direct imaging spectroscopy allows us to infer the properties of young, w…
X-SHYNE: X-Shooter spectra of young exoplanet analogs II. Presentation and analysis of the full library
Simon Petrus, Gaël Chauvin, Mickaël Bonnefoy +29
The X-SHYNE library is a homogeneous sample of 43 medium-resolution (R=8000) infrared (0.3-2.5um) spectra of young (<500Myr), low-mass (<20Mjup), and cold (Teff=600-2000K) isolated…
The planetary-mass-limit VLT/SINFONI library: Spectral extraction and atmospheric characterization via forward modeling
P. Palma-Bifani, M. Bonnefoy, G. Chauvin +9
We aim to deepen our understanding of the M-L transition on planetary-mass companions and isolated brown dwarfs, and search for evidence of possible differences between these two p…
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…
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…
Atmospheric abundances and bulk properties of the binary brown dwarf Gliese 229 Bab from JWST/MIRI spectroscopy
Jerry W. Xuan, Marshall D. Perrin, Dimitri Mawet +8
We present JWST/MIRI low-resolution spectroscopy (m) of the first known substellar companion, Gliese 229 Bab, which was recently resolved into a tight binary brown dwarf…
A High-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey of Directly Imaged Companion Hosts: I. Determination of diagnostic stellar abundances for planet formation and composition
Aneesh Baburaj, Quinn M. Konopacky, Christopher A. Theissen +6
We present the first results of an extensive spectroscopic survey of directly imaged planet host stars. The goal of the survey is the measurement of stellar properties and abundanc…
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Comprehensive Spectroscopic Survey of Transiting & High-Contrast Giant Planets
Munazza K. Alam, Emily Rickman, Kielan Hoch +6
We propose a comprehensive survey of giant planets ranging from close-in highly irradiated hot Jupiters to young, wide-orbit directly imaged planets. The combination of two establi…