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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…
Atmospheric characterization of six ultra-hot Jupiters from -band high-resolution spectroscopy
Luke Finnerty, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Yinzi Xin +27
We present new Keck/KPIC high-resolution spectroscopic detections of three ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) in the band: WASP-189b (), MASCARA-1b (), and…
Worlds Next Door. IV. Mapping the Late Stages of Giant Planet Evolution with a Precise Dynamical Mass and Luminosity for Ind Ab
Aniket Sanghi, William Thompson, James Mang +21
We present new JWST/NIRCam 4-5 m (F410M, F430M) and JWST/MIRI 18-25 m (F1800W, F2100W, F2550W) imaging detections of the nearby (3.6 pc) cold (275 K) gas giant exoplanet …
Possible stratospheric emission in the warm Neptune GJ 436 b from high-resolution spectroscopy
Luke Finnerty, Michael P Fitzgerald, Jerry W Xuan +26
We present high spectral resolution band (2.91--3.85 m) observations of the warm Neptune GJ 436 b from Keck II/KPIC. KPIC's single-mode fiber feed reduces the band sky b…
Distinct Rotational Evolution of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarf Companions
Chih-Chun Hsu, Jason J. Wang, Jerry W. Xuan +27
We present a rotational velocity (vsini) survey of 32 stellar/substellar objects and giant planets using Keck/KPIC high-resolution spectroscopy, including 6 giant planets (2-7 M$_\…
Chemical and Isotopic Homogeneity Between the L Dwarf CD-35 2722 B and its Early M Host Star
Gavin Wang, Jerry Xuan, Darío Picos +29
CD-35 2722 B is an L dwarf companion to the nearby, Myr old M1 dwarf CD-35 2722 A. We present a detailed analysis of both objects using high-resolution ($R \sim 35,00…
Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries II: A Dichotomy in Orbital Alignment of Small Planets in Close Binary Systems
Jingwen Zhang, Daniel Huber, Michael Bottom +35
Stellar multiplicity plays a crucial role in shaping planet formation and dynamical evolution. We present a survey of 54 TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) within 300 pc that exhibit…
The watery atmosphere of HD~209458~b revealed by joint - and -band high-resolution spectroscopy
Luke Finnerty, Julie Inglis, Michael P. Fitzgerald +26
We present a joint analysis of high-resolution - and -band observations of the benchmark hot Jupiter \hdb\ from the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC). One half nigh…
Water dissociation and rotational broadening in the atmosphere of KELT-20 b from high-resolution spectroscopy
Luke Finnerty, Yinzi Xin, Jerry W. Xuan +29
We present atmospheric retrievals from Keck/KPIC phase II observations of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-20/MASCARA-2~b. Previous free retrievals of molecular abundances for ultra-hot…
Technical description and performance of the phase II version of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
Nemanja Jovanovic, Daniel Echeverri, Jacques-Robert Delorme +46
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a series of upgrades for the Keck II Adaptive Optics (AO) system and the NIRSPEC spectrograph to enable diffraction limited, high…
PDS 70b Shows Stellar-like Carbon-to-oxygen Ratio
Chih-Chun Hsu, Jason J. Wang, Geoffrey A. Blake +27
The 5 Myr PDS 70 is the only known system with protoplanets residing in the cavity of the circumstellar disk from which they formed, ideal for studying exoplanet formation an…
True mass and atmospheric composition of the non-transiting hot Jupiter HD 143105 b
Luke Finnerty, Yinzi Xin, Jerry W. Xuan +28
We present Keck/KPIC phase II -band observations of the non-transiting hot Jupiter HD 143105 b. Using a cross-correlation approach, we make the first detection of the planetary…
RV measurements of directly imaged brown dwarf GQ Lup B to search for exo-satellites
Katelyn Horstman, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Konstantin Batygin +35
GQ Lup B is one of the few substellar companions with a detected cicumplanetary disk, or CPD. Observations of the CPD suggest the presence of a cavity, possibly formed by an exo-sa…
Fringing analysis and forward modeling of Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) spectra
Katelyn A. Horstman, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Jason J. Wang +27
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) combines high contrast imaging with high resolution spectroscopy (R~35,000 in K band) to study directly imaged exoplanets and brown…
Atmospheric characterization of the super-Jupiter HIP 99770 b with KPIC
Yapeng Zhang, Jerry W. Xuan, Dimitri Mawet +28
Young, self-luminous super-Jovian companions discovered by direct imaging provide a challenging test of planet formation and evolution theories. By spectroscopically characterizing…
The high-contrast performance of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
Jason J. Wang, Dimitri Mawet, Jerry W. Xuan +25
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), a series of upgrades to the Keck II Adaptive Optics System and Instrument Suite, aims to demonstrate high-resolution spectroscopy o…
Rotation and Abundances of the Benchmark Brown Dwarf HD 33632 Ab from Keck/KPIC High-resolution Spectroscopy
Chih-Chun Hsu, Jason J. Wang, Jerry W. Xuan +24
We present the projected rotational velocity and molecular abundances for HD 33632 Ab obtained via Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer high-resolution spectroscopy. HD 33632 Ab is…
Are these planets or brown dwarfs? Broadly solar compositions from high-resolution atmospheric retrievals of ~10-30 companions
Jerry W. Xuan, Chih-Chun Hsu, Luke Finnerty +32
Using Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) high-resolution (~35000) spectroscopy from 2.29-2.49 m, we present uniform atmospheric retrievals for eight young substellar…
Vortex Fiber Nulling for Exoplanet Observations: First Direct Detection of M Dwarf Companions around HIP 21543, HIP 94666, and HIP 50319
Daniel Echeverri, Jerry W. Xuan, John D. Monnier +35
Vortex fiber nulling (VFN) is a technique for detecting and characterizing faint companions at small separations from their host star. A near-infrared (m) VFN demonstrat…
Validation of elemental and isotopic abundances in late-M spectral types with the benchmark HIP 55507 AB system
Jerry W. Xuan, Jason J. Wang, Luke Finnerty +48
M dwarfs are common host stars to exoplanets but often lack atmospheric abundance measurements. Late-M dwarfs are also good analogs to the youngest substellar companions, which sha…
Vortex Fiber Nulling for Exoplanet Observations: Implementation and First Light
Daniel Echeverri, Jerry Xuan, Nemanja Jovanovic +31
Vortex fiber nulling (VFN) is a single-aperture interferometric technique for detecting and characterizing exoplanets separated from their host star by less than a diffracted beam…
On-sky speckle nulling through a single-mode fiber with the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
Yinzi Xin, Jerry W. Xuan, Dimitri Mawet +14
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is an instrument at the Keck II telescope that enables high-resolution spectroscopy of directly imaged exoplanets and substellar com…
Detecting exomoons from radial velocity measurements of self-luminous planets: application to observations of HR 7672 B and future prospects
Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Katelyn Horstman, Dimitri Mawet +36
The detection of satellites around extrasolar planets, so called exomoons, remains a largely unexplored territory. In this work, we study the potential of detecting these elusive o…
Phase II of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: system-level laboratory characterization and preliminary on-sky commissioning
Daniel Echeverri, Nemanja Jovanovic, Jacques-Robert Delorme +35
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a series of upgrades for the Keck II Adaptive Optics (AO) system and the NIRSPEC spectrograph to enable diffraction-limited, high…