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astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

SCExAO/CHARIS and Gaia Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of a Superjovian Planet 3--4 lambda/D from the Accelerating Star HIP 54515

Thayne Currie, Yiting Li, Mona El Morsy +28

We present the discovery of a superjovian planet around the young A5 star HIP 54515, detected using precision astrometry from the Hipparcos Gaia Catalogue of Accelerations and high…

astro-ph.EP2025

Multi-band Spectral and Astrometric Characterization of the HIP 99770 b Planet with SCExAO/CHARIS and Gaia

Danielle Bovie, Thayne Currie, Mona El Morsy +12

We present and analyze follow-up, higher resolution ( 70) and band integral field spectroscopy of the superjovian exoplanet HIP 99770 b with SCExAO/CHARIS. Our ne…

astro-ph.EP2025

VLT/MUSE Detection of the AB Aurigae b Protoplanet with Spectroscopy

Thayne Currie, Jun Hashimoto, Yuhiko Aoyama +6

We analyze high-contrast, medium-spectral-resolution observations of the star AB Aurigae using the Very Large Telescope's Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). In m…

astro-ph.EP2025

Unveiling the Atmosphere of HR 7672 B from the Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectrum Using REACH/Subaru

Yui Kasagi, Yui Kawashima, Hajime Kawahara +12

Characterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets and brown dwarfs is crucial for understanding their atmospheric physics and chemistry, searching for biosignatures, and investigating t…

astro-ph.EP2024

SCExAO/CHARIS Near-Infrared Scattered-Light Imaging and Integral Field Spectropolarimetry of the AB Aurigae Protoplanetary System

Erica Dykes, Thayne Currie, Kellen Lawson +21

We analyze near-infrared integral field spectropolarimetry of the AB Aurigae protoplanetary disk and protoplanet (AB Aur b), obtained with SCExAO/CHARIS in 22 wavelength channels c…

astro-ph.EP2024

Design, scientific goals, and performance of the SCExAO survey for planets around accelerating stars

Mona El Morsy, Thayne Currie, Masayuki Kuzuhara +25

We describe the motivation, design, and early results for our 42-night, 125 star Subaru/SCExAO direct imaging survey for planets around accelerating stars. Unlike prior large surve…

astro-ph.EP2024

Dynamical and Atmospheric Characterization of the Substellar Companion HD 33632 Ab from Direct Imaging, Astrometry, and Radial-Velocity Data

Mona El Morsy, Thayne Currie, Danielle Bovie +17

We present follow-up SCExAO/CHARIS and -band (R 70) high-contrast integral field spectroscopy and Keck/NIRC2 photometry of directly-imaged brown dwarf companion HD 33…

astro-ph.EP2024

Testing magnetospheric accretion as an H emission mechanism of embedded giant planets: The case study for the disk exhibiting meridional flow around HD 163296

Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Taichi Uyama, Jun Hashimoto +7

Recent high-sensitivity observations reveal that accreting giant planets embedded in their parental circumstellar disks can emit H at their final formation stages. While the ori…

astro-ph.EP2023

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…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 10 cited

Multiband imaging of the HD 36546 debris disk: a refined view from SCExAO/CHARIS

Kellen Lawson, Thayne Currie, John P. Wisniewski +21

We present the first multi-wavelength (near-infrared; ) imaging of HD 36546's debris disk, using the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) system co…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 17 cited

TOI-2285b: A 1.7 Earth-radius Planet Near the Habitable Zone around a Nearby M Dwarf

Akihiko Fukui, Tadahiro Kimura, Teruyuki Hirano +60

We report the discovery of TOI-2285b, a sub-Neptune-sized planet transiting a nearby (42 pc) M dwarf with a period of 27.3 days. We identified the transit signal from the Transitin…