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most citedThe James Webb Space Telescope Mission

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45 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Charge migration characterization in the METIS H2RG detectors

Danny Gasman, Benoît Serra, Roy van Boekel +4

The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) is one of the first-light instruments of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). For the L and M band, the instrument makes use of…

astro-ph.EP2026

MINDS: Complementary inclinations in the binary system HK Tau reveal gas- and ice-phase chemistry

Alice Somigliana, Giulia Perotti, Nicolás T. Kurtovic +18

[Abridged] HK Tau is a roughly equal mass pre-main sequence binary system consisting of a low-inclination primary (57 deg) and an edge-on (83 deg) secondary. We present JWST/MIRI o…

astro-ph.SR2026

MINDS survey of silicates in T Tauri disks: Correlation between dust and gas

J. Varga, Th. Henning, L. B. F. M. Waters +20

Context. Silicates are key constituents of planet-forming disks and major building blocks of rocky planets. Mid-infrared spectral features of micron-sized silicate grains trace gra…

astro-ph.EP2026

Oxygen and nitrogen isotopologues on cold COCONUTS-2b observed with MIRI/MRS

H. Kühnle, E. C. Matthews, P. Mollière +12

Linking the composition of gas giant planets to their formation paths has long been a goal in exoplanet science. Especially, cold gas giants with temperatures below 500K have…

astro-ph.EP2025

MINDS: The molecule-rich disc of the Herbig star HD 35929 revealed with JWST/MIRI

Till Kaeufer, Rens Waters, Danny Gasman +16

Our knowledge of the chemical composition of the gas in the inner disc of intermediate-mass young stars is limited, due to the lack of suitable instrumentation. The launch of JWST…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

MINDS. Cha Hα 1, a brown dwarf with a hydrocarbon-rich disk

María Morales-Calderón, Hyerin Jang, Aditya M. Arabhavi +23

Context. Recent JWST observations have shown that brown dwarfs (BD) are chemically rich, offering valuable insights into giant planet formation. Aims. As part of the MIRI mid-INfra…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 17 cited

A transition from HO to CH dominated spectra with decreasing stellar luminosity

Sierra L. Grant, Milou Temmink, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +19

The chemical composition of the inner regions of disks around young stars will determine the properties of planets forming there. Many disk physical processes drive the chemical ev…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

MINDS. Young binary systems with JWST/MIRI: Variable water-rich primaries and extended emission

Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Sierra L. Grant, Milou Temmink +16

As part of the JWST GTO program MINDS, we analyze the mid-infrared emission of three Class II binary systems: VW Cha, WX Cha, and RW Aur, to investigate the impact of stellar multi…

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★ 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★ 28 cited

MINDS: The very low-mass star and brown dwarf sample. Detections and trends in the inner disk gas

A. M. Arabhavi, I. Kamp, Th. Henning +22

Planet-forming disks around brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars (VLMS) are on average less massive and are expected to undergo faster radial solid transport than their higher mass…

astro-ph.EP2025

MINDS. Water reservoirs of compact planet-forming dust disk: A diversity of HO distributions

Milou Temmink, Andrew D. Sellek, Danny Gasman +17

Millimetre-compact dust disks are thought to have efficient radial drift of icy dust pebbles, which has been hypothesised to produce an enhanced cold (400 K) HO reservoir i…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 20 cited

MINDS: The very low-mass star and brown dwarf sample -- Hidden water in carbon-dominated protoplanetary disks

Aditya M. Arabhavi, Inga Kamp, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +21

Infrared observations of the inner disks around very low-mass stars (VLMS, 0.3) have revealed a carbon-rich gas composition in the terrestrial planet-forming region…

astro-ph.EP2025

MINDS. Anatomy of a water-rich, inclined, brown dwarf disk: lack of abundant hydrocarbons

Giulia Perotti, Nicolás T. Kurtovic, Thomas Henning +23

2MASS J04381486+2611399 (or J0438) is one of the few young brown dwarfs (BD) with a highly inclined () disk. Here we report results from JWST-MIRI MRS, HST-ACS a…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 6 cited

Extended source fringe flats for the JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer

N. Crouzet, M. Mueller, B. Sargent +17

The detectors of the JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) form low-finesse resonating cavities that cause periodic count rate modulations (fring…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

MINDS. The influence of outer dust disc structure on the volatile delivery to the inner disc

Danny Gasman, Milou Temmink, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +18

ALMA has revealed that the millimetre dust structures of protoplanetary discs are extremely diverse. It has been proposed that the strength of HO emission in the inner disc par…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 23 cited

MINDS. JWST-MIRI reveals a peculiar CO-rich chemistry in the drift-dominated disk CX Tau

Marissa Vlasblom, Milou Temmink, Sierra L. Grant +20

Radial drift of icy pebbles can have a large impact on the chemistry of the inner regions of protoplanetary disks. Compact dust disks (50 au) are suggested to have a high…

astro-ph.IM2024

The James Webb Space Telescope Absolute Flux Calibration. III. Mid-Infrared Instrument Medium Resolution IFU Spectrometer

David R. Law, Ioannis Argyriou, Karl D. Gordon +7

We describe the spectrophotometric calibration of the Mid-Infrared Instrument's (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This calib…

astro-ph.SR2024

MINDS. JWST-MIRI Observations of a Spatially Resolved Atomic Jet and Polychromatic Molecular Wind Toward SY Cha

Kamber R. Schwarz, Matthias Samland, Göran Olofsson +21

The removal of angular momentum from protostellar systems drives accretion onto the central star and may drive the dispersal of the protoplanetary disk. Winds and jets can contribu…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 29 cited

Dust mineralogy and variability of the inner PDS 70 disk

Hyerin Jang, Rens Waters, Till Kaeufer +17

The inner disk of the young star PDS 70 may be a site of rocky planet formation, with two giant planets detected further out. Solids in the inner disk may inform us about the origi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 45 cited

MINDS. Hydrocarbons detected by JWST/MIRI in the inner disk of Sz28 consistent with a high C/O gas-phase chemistry

Jayatee Kanwar, Inga Kamp, Hyerin Jang +20

With the advent of JWST, we acquire unprecedented insights into the physical and chemical structure of the inner regions of planet-forming disks where terrestrial planet formation…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 27 cited

MINDS. A multi-instrument investigation into the molecule-rich JWST-MIRI spectrum of the DF Tau binary system

Sierra L. Grant, Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +26

Most stars form in multiple systems whose properties can significantly impact circumstellar disk evolution. We investigate the physical and chemical properties of the equal-mass, s…

astro-ph.EP2024

MINDS. The DR Tau disk II: probing the hot and cold HO reservoirs in the JWST-MIRI spectrum

Milou Temmink, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Danny Gasman +14

The MRS mode of the JWST-MIRI instrument gives insights into the chemical richness and complexity of the inner regions of planet-forming disks. Here, we analyse the HO-rich spe…

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…