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astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

Multi-epoch scattered-light analysis of HD 135344B: new evidence for a spiral-driving protoplanet

J. Latour, V. Christiaens, O. Absil +17

The HD 135344B (SAO 206462) disk exhibits strong signposts of planet formation. ALMA images in the sub-mm revealed a gap-crossing dust filament whose position coincides with a twis…

astro-ph.EP2025

Interferometric Detection and Orbit Modeling of the Subcomponent in the Hot-dust System Tuc A: A Low-mass Star on an Eccentric Orbit in a Hierarchical-quintuple System

T. A. Stuber, A. Mérand, F. Kirchschlager +19

The system Tuc A is part of a hierarchical-quintuple system and is a prime target for studies of hot-exozodiacal dust, because a time-variable near-infrared excess has been det…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 20 cited

Evidence for SiO cloud nucleation in the rogue planet PSO J318

P. Mollière, H. Kühnle, E. C. Matthews +25

Silicate clouds are known to significantly impact the spectra of late L-type brown dwarfs, with observable absorption features at ~ 10 micron. JWST has reopened our window to the m…

astro-ph.EP2025

MINDS: Detection of an inner gas disk caused by evaporating bodies around HD 172555

M. Samland, T. Henning, A. Caratti o Garatti +23

Mechanisms such as collisions of rocky bodies or cometary activity give rise to dusty debris disks. Debris disks trace the leftover building blocks of planets, and thus also planet…

astro-ph.EP2025

Panchromatic characterization of the Y0 brown dwarf WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 using JWST/MIRI

Malavika Vasist, Paul Mollire, Helena Kühnle +9

Cold brown dwarf atmospheres are good training grounds for analyzing temperate giant planets. WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 (WISE 1738) is an isolated Y0 brown dwarf with a temperature…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

JWST/MIRI observations of the young TWA 27 system: hydrocarbon disk chemistry, silicate clouds, evidence for a CPD

P. Patapis, M. Morales-Calderón, A. M. Arabhavi +39

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) enables the characterisation of young self-luminous gas giants at previously inaccessible wavelengths, r…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Detection of CO, CO, and HO in the atmosphere of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12b

N. Crouzet, B. Edwards, T. Konings +29

The chemical composition of warm gas giant exoplanet atmospheres (with Teq < 1000 K) is not well known due to the lack of observational constraints. HAT-P-12 b is a warm, sub-Satur…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

MIRI-JWST mid-infrared direct imaging of the debris disk of HD106906

Daniel Rouan, Anthony Boccaletti, Clément Perrot +20

We report MIRI-JWST coronagraphic observations at 11.3 and 15.5 mic of the debris disk around the young star HD 106906. The observations were made to characterize the structure, te…

astro-ph.EP2025

HCN and C2H2 in the atmosphere of a T8.5+T9 brown dwarf binary

Elisabeth C. Matthews, Paul Mollière, Helena Kühnle +22

T-type brown dwarfs present an opportunity to explore atmospheres teeming with molecules such as H2O, CH4 and NH3, which exhibit a wealth of absorption features in the mid-infrared…

astro-ph.EP2025

First unambiguous detection of ammonia in the atmosphere of a planetary mass companion with JWST/MIRI coronagraphs

Mathilde Mâlin, Anthony Boccaletti, Clément Perrot +28

The newly accessible mid-infrared (MIR) window offered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for exoplanet imaging is expected to provide valuable information to characterize th…

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.EP2024★ 26 cited

Water depletion and 15NH3 in the atmosphere of the coldest brown dwarf observed with JWST/MIRI

H. Kühnle, P. Patapis, P. Mollière +21

With a temperature of K WISE0855 is the coldest brown dwarf observed so far. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) we obtained observations that allow us to charac…

astro-ph.EP2024

Efficiently Searching for Close-in Companions around Young M Dwarfs using a Multi-year PSF Library

Aniket Sanghi, Jerry Xuan, Jason Wang +7

We present Super-RDI, a unique framework for the application of reference star differential imaging (RDI) to Keck/NIRC2 high-contrast imaging observations with the vortex coronagra…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Survey of Protoplanetary Disks Using the Keck/NIRC2 Vortex Coronagraph

Nicole L. Wallack, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Garreth Ruane +34

Recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of protoplanetary disks in the millimeter continuum have shown a variety of radial gaps, cavities, and spira…

astro-ph.EP2024

Unveiling the HD 95086 system at mid-infrared wavelengths with JWST/MIRI

Mathilde Mâlin, Anthony Boccaletti, Clément Perrot +26

Mid-infrared imaging of exoplanets and disks is now possible with the coronagraphs of the MIRI on the JWST. This wavelength range unveils new features of young directly imaged syst…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 10 cited

Combining reference-star and angular differential imaging for high-contrast imaging of extended sources

Sandrine Juillard, Valentin Christiaens, Olivier Absil +2

High-contrast imaging (HCI) is a technique designed to observe faint signals near bright sources, such as exoplanets and circumstellar disks. The primary challenge in revealing the…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 71 cited

Abundant hydrocarbons in the disk around a very-low-mass star

A. M. Arabhavi, I. Kamp, Th. Henning +40

Very low-mass stars (those <0.3 solar masses) host orbiting terrestrial planets more frequently than other types of stars, but the compositions of those planets are largely unknown…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 10 cited

Use the 4S (Signal-Safe Speckle Subtraction): Explainable Machine Learning reveals the Giant Exoplanet AF Lep b in High-Contrast Imaging Data from 2011

Markus J. Bonse, Timothy D. Gebhard, Felix A. Dannert +10

The main challenge of exoplanet high-contrast imaging (HCI) is to separate the signal of exoplanets from their host stars, which are many orders of magnitude brighter. HCI for grou…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 11 cited

Machine Learning for Exoplanet Detection in High-Contrast Spectroscopy: Revealing Exoplanets by Leveraging Hidden Molecular Signatures in Cross-Correlated Spectra with Convolutional Neural Networks

Emily O. Garvin, Markus J. Bonse, Jean Hayoz +8

The new generation of observatories and instruments (VLT/ERIS, JWST, ELT) motivate the development of robust methods to detect and characterise faint and close-in exoplanets. Molec…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Machine learning for exoplanet detection in high-contrast spectroscopy Combining cross correlation maps and deep learning on medium-resolution integral-field spectra

Rakesh Nath-Ranga, Olivier Absil, Valentin Christiaens +1

The advent of high-contrast imaging instruments combined with medium-resolution spectrographs allows spectral and temporal dimensions to be combined with spatial dimensions to dete…

astro-ph.EP2024

MINDS. The DR Tau disk I: combining JWST-MIRI data with high-resolution CO spectra to characterise the hot gas

Milou Temmink, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Sierra L. Grant +29

The MRS mode of the JWST-MIRI instrument has been shown to be a powerful tool to characterise the molecular gas emission of the inner region of planet-forming disks. Here, we analy…

astro-ph.EP2024

MINDS: The JWST MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey

Thomas Henning, Inga Kamp, Matthias Samland +39

The study of protoplanetary disks has become increasingly important with the Kepler satellite finding that exoplanets are ubiquitous around stars in our galaxy and the discovery of…