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20222026
most citedOctofitter: Fast, Flexible, and Accurate Orbit Modelling to Detect Exoplanets

24 citations · 93 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Astrometric Evidence for Outer Giant Planets in Known Exoplanet Systems

Clarissa R. Do Ó, William Thompson, Dori Blakely +19

Outer giant planets can influence the formation and dynamical evolution of their planetary systems. However, their long orbital periods make them difficult to detect using transit…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Candidate Innermost Fifth Planet In the HR 8799 System Revealed By JWST NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry

Jayke S. Nguyen, Louis Desdoigts, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum +20

We detect a candidate fifth planet in the HR 8799 system, directly imaged with the JWST/NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometer (AMI). The detected source lies just above a con…

astro-ph.EP2026

Dynamical Mass Constraints on Transition Disk Perturbers with the G23H Catalog

Dori Blakely, William Thompson, Doug Johnstone +14

We present dynamical mass constraints on perturbers in 11 transition disk systems using a novel combination of calibrated Hipparcos and Gaia absolute astrometry data. Out of the sa…

astro-ph.EP2026

Detecting and Characterizing Companions with a Calibrated Gaia DR2, DR3, and Hipparcos Catalog (G23H)

William Thompson, Dori Blakely, Jerry W. Xuan +16

Gaia DR4 epoch astrometry will enable the detection of thousands of exoplanets through astrometric motion. Here, we present a composite catalog and modeling framework that extracts…

astro-ph.IM2025

Image reconstruction with the JWST Interferometer

Max Charles, Louis Desdoigts, Benjamin Pope +7

Flying on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) above Earth's turbulent atmosphere, the Aperture Masking Interferometer (AMI) on the NIRISS instrument is the highest-resoluti…

astro-ph.IM2025

AMIGO: a Data-Driven Calibration of the JWST Interferometer

Louis Desdoigts, Benjamin Pope, Max Charles +8

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) hosts a non-redundant Aperture Masking Interferometer (AMI) in its Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, providi…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Keplerian motion of a compact source orbiting the inner disc of PDS 70: a third protoplanet in resonance with b and c?

Iain Hammond, Valentin Christiaens, Daniel J. Price +10

The disc around PDS 70 hosts two directly imaged protoplanets in a gap. Previous VLT/SPHERE and recent James Webb Space Telescope/NIRCam observations have hinted at the presence of…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Tentative Detection of a Point Source in the Disk Gap of HD 100546 with VLT/SPHERE-IRDIS Sparse Aperture Masking Interferometry

Dori Blakely, Doug Johnstone, Tomas Stolker +5

We re-analyze VLT/SPHERE-IRDIS K and H-band sparse aperture masking interferometry data of the transition disk HD 100546 observed in 2018 and 2021, respectively. We fit geometrical…

astro-ph.SR2025

On the Orbit of the Binary Brown Dwarf Companion GL229 Ba and Bb

William Thompson, Dori Blakely, Jerry W. Xuan +21

The companion GL229B was recently resolved by Xuan et al. (2024) as a tight binary of two brown dwarfs (Ba and Bb) through VLTI-GRAVITY interferometry and VLT-CRIRES+ RV measuremen…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

The James Webb Interferometer: Space-based interferometric detections of PDS 70 b and c at 4.8 m

Dori Blakely, Doug Johnstone, Gabriele Cugno +22

We observed the planet-hosting system PDS 70 with the James Webb Interferometer, JWST's Aperture Masking Interferometric (AMI) mode within NIRISS. Observing with the F480M filter c…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 24 cited

Octofitter: Fast, Flexible, and Accurate Orbit Modelling to Detect Exoplanets

William Thompson, Jensen Lawrence, Dori Blakely +11

As next-generation imaging instruments and interferometers search for planets closer to their stars, they must contend with increasing orbital motion and longer integration times.…

astro-ph.EP2023

Searching for low-mass companions at small separations in transition disks with aperture masking interferometry

Tomas Stolker, Jens Kammerer, Myriam Benisty +9

Transition disks have large central cavities that have been spatially resolved during recent years. Cavities and other substructures in circumstellar disks are often interpreted as…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 23 cited

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- IV. Aperture Masking Interferometry

Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Peter Tuthill, James P. Lloyd +36

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST-NIRISS) flies a 7-hole non-redundant mask (NRM), the first such interferometer in space, opera…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 17 cited

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for JWST -- V. Kernel Phase Imaging and Data Analysis

Jens Kammerer, Rachel A. Cooper, Thomas Vandal +26

Kernel phase imaging (KPI) enables the direct detection of substellar companions and circumstellar dust close to and below the classical (Rayleigh) diffraction limit. We present a…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 19 cited

The Origin of the Doppler-flip in HD 100546: a large scale spiral arm generated by an inner binary companion

Brodie J. Norfolk, Christophe Pinte, Josh Calcino +9

Companions at sub-arcsecond separation from young stars are difficult to image. However their presence can be inferred from the perturbations they create in the dust and gas of pro…

astro-ph.EP2022

Two Rings and a Marginally Resolved, 5 AU, Disk Around LkCa 15 Identified Via Near Infrared Sparse Aperture Masking Interferometry

Dori Blakely, Logan Francis, Doug Johnstone +10

Sparse aperture masking interferometry (SAM) is a high resolution observing technique that allows for imaging at and beyond a telescope's diffraction limit. The technique is ideal…