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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…
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…
Recovering simulated planet and disk signals using SCALES aperture masking
Mackenzie Lach, Steph Sallum, Ravinder Banyal +29
The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) instrument is a lenslet-based integral field spectrograph that will operate at 2 to 5 microns, imagin…
Simulating medium-spectral-resolution exoplanet characterization with SCALES angular/reference differential imaging
Aditi Desai, Stephanie E. Sallum, Ravinder Banyal +30
SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) is a 2 - 5 micron high-contrast lenslet-based integral field spectrograph (IFS) designed to characterize…
The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES): driving science cases and expected outcomes
Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer, Deno Stelter +34
The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) is a m, high-contrast integral field spectrograph (IFS) currently being built for Keck Observa…
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…
Direct images and spectroscopy of a giant protoplanet driving spiral arms in MWC 758
Kevin Wagner, Jordan Stone, Andrew Skemer +23
Understanding the driving forces behind spiral arms in protoplanetary disks remains a challenge due to the faintness of young giant planets. MWC 758 hosts such a protoplanetary dis…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 Micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b
Brittany E. Miles, Beth A. Biller, Polychronis Patapis +101
We present the highest fidelity spectrum to date of a planetary-mass object. VHS 1256 b is a 20 M widely separated (8\arcsec, a = 150 au), young, planetary-…
SCALES for Keck: Optical Design
Renate Kupke, R. Deno Stelter, Amirul Hasan +9
SCALES is a high-contrast, infrared coronagraphic imager and integral field spectrograph (IFS) to be deployed behind the W.M. Keck Observatory adaptive optics system. A reflective…
Design of SCALES: A 2-5 Micron Coronagraphic Integral Field Spectrograph for Keck Observatory
Andrew Skemer, R. Deno Stelter, Stephanie Sallum +49
We present the design of SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) a new 2-5 micron coronagraphic integral field spectrograph under construction fo…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems I: High Contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2-16 m
Aarynn L. Carter, Sasha Hinkley, Jens Kammerer +108
We present JWST Early Release Science (ERS) coronagraphic observations of the super-Jupiter exoplanet, HIP 65426 b, with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) from 2-5 m, and with t…
L-band Integral Field Spectroscopy of the HR 8799 Planetary System
David S. Doelman, Jordan M. Stone, Zackery W. Briesemeister +12
Understanding the physical processes sculpting the appearance of young gas-giant planets is complicated by degeneracies confounding effective temperature, surface gravity, cloudine…
Information Content Approach to Trade Studies for SCALES
Zackery Briesemeister, Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer +1
The advantage of having a high-fidelity instrument simulation tool developed in tandem with novel instrumentation is having the ability to investigate, in isolation and in combinat…
The vector-apodizing phase plate coronagraph: design, current performance, and future development
D. S. Doelman, F. Snik, E. H. Por +50
Over the last decade, the vector-apodizing phase plate (vAPP) coronagraph has been developed from concept to on-sky application in many high-contrast imaging systems on 8-m class t…
Update on the Preliminary Design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy
R. Deno Stelter, Andrew J. Skemer, Steph Sallum +16
SCALES (Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) is a 2-5 micron high-contrast lenslet integral-field spectrograph (IFS) driven by exoplanet characterization scienc…
End-to-end Simulation of the SCALES Integral Field Spectrograph
Zackery Briesemeister, Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer +3
We present end-to-end simulations of SCALES, the third generation thermal-infrared diffraction limited imager and low/med-resolution integral field spectrograph (IFS) being designe…
High Contrast Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy with ALES: The 3-4m Spectrum of Andromedae b
Jordan M. Stone, Travis Barman, Andrew J. Skemer +7
We present the first band (2.8 to 4.1~m) spectroscopy of ~Andromedae~b, a companion orbiting at projected separation from its…
High Spatial Resolution Thermal-Infrared Spectroscopy with ALES: Resolved Spectra of the Benchmark Brown Dwarf Binary HD 130948BC
Zackery W. Briesemeister, Andrew J. Skemer, Jordan M. Stone +6
We present 2.9-4.1 micron integral field spectroscopy of the L4+L4 brown dwarf binary HD 130948BC, obtained with the Arizona Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (ALES) mode of the…
The Demographics and Atmospheres of Giant Planets with the ELTs
Brendan Bowler, Steph Sallum, Alan Boss +23
Gas giants are the most readily detectable exoplanets but fundamental questions about their system architectures, formation, migration, and atmospheres have been unanswerable with…
MEAD: Data Reduction Pipeline for ALES Integral Field Spectrograph and LBTI Thermal Infrared Calibration Unit
Zackery Briesemeister, Andrew J. Skemer, Jordan M. Stone +6
We present the data reduction pipeline, MEAD, for Arizona Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (ALES), the first thermal infrared integral field spectrograph designed for high-contr…
The Planetary Systems Imager: 2-5 Micron Channel
Andrew J. Skemer, Deno Stelter, Dimitri Mawet +15
We summarize the red channel (2-5 micron) of the Planetary Systems Imager (PSI), a proposed second-generation instrument for the TMT. Cold exoplanets emit the majority of their lig…
ALES: Overview and Upgrades
Andrew J. Skemer, Philip Hinz, Jordan Stone +4
The Arizona Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (ALES) is the world's first AO-fed thermal infrared integral field spectrograph, mounted inside the Large Binocular Telescope Interf…
On-Sky Operations with the ALES Integral Field Spectrograph
Jordan M. Stone, Andrew J. Skemer, Philip Hinz +5
The integral field spectrograph configuration of the LMIRCam science camera within the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) facilitates 2 to 5 m spectroscopy of direc…