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astro-ph.EP2024★ 53 cited

Combined analysis of the 12.8 and 15 JWST/MIRI eclipse observations of TRAPPIST-1 b

Elsa Ducrot, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Michiel Min +36

The first JWST/MIRI photometric observations of TRAPPIST-1 b allowed for the detection of the thermal emission of the planet at 15 , suggesting that the planet could be a bare…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 34 cited

JWST MIRI Flight Performance: Imaging

Dan Dicken, Macarena García Marín, Irene Shivaei +37

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides the observatory with a huge advance in mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy covering the w…

astro-ph.SR2024

JWST MIRI Imager Observations of Supernova SN 1987A

P. Bouchet, R. Gastaud, A. Coulais +31

There exist very few mid-infrared (IR) observations of supernovae (SNe) in general. Therefore, SN 1987A, the closest visible SN in 400 years, gives us the opportunity to explore th…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 43 cited

15NH3 in the atmosphere of a cool brown dwarf

David Barrado, Paul Mollière, Polychronis Patapis +40

Brown dwarfs serve as ideal laboratories for studying the atmospheres of giant exoplanets on wide orbits as the governing physical and chemical processes in them are nearly identic…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 128 cited

SO2, silicate clouds, but no CH4 detected in a warm Neptune

Achrene Dyrek, Michiel Min, Leen Decin +44

WASP-107b is a warm (~740 K) transiting planet with a Neptune-like mass of ~30.5 Earth masses and Jupiter-like radius of ~0.94 Jupiter radius, whose extended atmosphere is eroding.…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 31 cited

Imaging detection of the inner dust belt and the four exoplanets in the HR8799 system with JWST's MIRI coronagraph

Boccaletti A., Mâlin M., Baudoz P. +35

The multi planet system HR8799 is the first target observed with MIRI's coronagraphs as part of the MIRI-EC Guaranteed Time Observations exoplanets programme in Nov. 2022. We obtai…

astro-ph.HE2023

Ejecta, Rings, and Dust in SN 1987A with JWST MIRI/MRS

O. C. Jones, P. J. Kavanagh, M. J. Barlow +31

Supernova (SN) 1987A is the nearest supernova in 400 years. Using the {\em JWST} MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrograph, we spatially resolved the ejecta, equatorial ring (ER) a…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 490 cited

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather, Randy Abbott +1004

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 34 cited

JWST NIRSpec observations of Supernova 1987A -- from the inner ejecta to the reverse shock

J. Larsson, C. Fransson, B. Sargent +23

We present initial results from JWST NIRSpec integral field unit observations of the nearby Supernova (SN) 1987A. The observations provide the first spatially-resolved spectroscopy…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 47 cited

Spectroscopic time series performance of the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the JWST

Jeroen Bouwman, Sarah Kendrew, Thomas P. Greene +21

We present here the first ever mid-infrared spectroscopic time series observation of the transiting exoplanet \object{L 168-9 b} with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the Jame…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 31 cited

Phase curve pollution of exoplanet transmission spectra

G. Morello, T. Zingales, M. Martin-Lagarde +2

The occurrence of a planet transiting in front of its host star offers the opportunity to observe the planet's atmosphere filtering starlight. The fraction of occulted stellar flux…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 49 cited

The quantum efficiency and diffractive image artifacts of Si:As IBC mid-IR detector arrays at 5 10 m: Implications for the JWST/MIRI detectors

Andras Gaspar, George H. Rieke, Pierre Guillard +6

Arsenic doped back illuminated blocked impurity band (BIBIB) silicon detectors have advanced near and mid-IR astronomy for over thirty years; they have high quantum efficiency (QE)…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 26 cited

MIRISim: A Simulator for the Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST

P. D. Klaassen, V. C. Geers, S. M. Beard +18

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has imaging, four coronagraphs and both low and medium resolution spectroscopic modes . Being able to s…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 27 cited

Atmospheric characterization of directly imaged exoplanets with JWST/MIRI

C. Danielski, J. -L. Baudino, P. -O. Lagage +4

The Mid-Infrared instrument (MIRI) on board the James Webb Space Telescope will perform the first ever characterization of young giant exoplanets observed by direct imaging in the…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 23 cited

The XXL Survey XXIV. The final detection pipeline

L. Faccioli, F. Pacaud, J. -L. Sauvageot +7

A well characterised detection pipeline is an important ingredient for X-ray cluster surveys. We present the final development of the XXL Survey pipeline. The pipeline optimally us…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 272 cited

The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, C. Adami +89

We present the XXL Survey, the largest XMM programme totaling some 6.9 Ms to date and involving an international consortium of roughly 100 members. The XXL Survey covers two extrag…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 131 cited

The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, III: MIRIM, The MIRI Imager

P. Bouchet, M. Garcia-Marin, P. -O. Lagage +34

In this article, we describe the MIRI Imager module (MIRIM), which provides broad-band imaging in the 5 - 27 microns wavelength range for the James Webb Space Telescope. The imager…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 72 cited

The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, VIII: The MIRI Focal Plane System

M. E. Ressler, K. G. Sukhatme, B. R. Franklin +12

We describe the layout and unique features of the focal plane system for MIRI. We begin with the detector array and its readout integrated circuit (combining the amplifier unit cel…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 32 cited

The X-CLASS - redMaPPer galaxy cluster comparison: I. Identification procedures

Tatyana Sadibekova, Marguerite Pierre, Nicolas Clerc +5

We performed a detailed and, for a large part interactive, analysis of the matching output between the X-CLASS and redMaPPer cluster catalogues. The overlap between the two catalog…

astro-ph2001★ 57 cited

Comparison of source detection procedures for XMM-Newton images

I. Valtchanov, M. Pierre, R. Gastaud

Procedures based on current methods to detect sources in X-ray images are applied to simulated XMM images. All significant instrumental effects are taken into account, and two kind…

astro-ph2000★ 60 cited

A Mosaic of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies with XMM-Newton

Ulrich G. Briel, J. Patrick Henry, David H. Lumb +7

The Coma cluster of galaxies was observed with XMM-Newton in 12 partially overlapping pointings. We present here the resulting X-ray map in different energy bands and discuss the l…

astro-ph2000★ 139 cited

XMM- Newton Observation of the Coma Galaxy Cluster: The temperature structure in the central region

M. Arnaud, N. Aghanim, R. Gastaud +8

We present a temperature map and a temperature profile of the central part (r < 20' or 1/4 virial radius) of the Coma cluster. We combined 5 overlapping pointings made with XMM/EPI…

astro-ph2000★ 99 cited

The NGC4839 group falling into the Coma cluster observed by XMM-Newton

D. M. Neumann, M. Arnaud, R. Gastaud +7

We present here the first analysis of the XMM Newton EPIC-MOS data of the galaxy group around NGC4839, which lies at a projected distance to the Coma cluster center of 1.6Mpc. In o…