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most citedDirect-imaging Discovery of a Substellar Companion Orbiting the Accelerating Variable Star, HIP 39017

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astro-ph.IM2026

NIRC2-Pol: First Light of Near-Infrared Polarimetry on Keck II

Briley L. Lewis, Manxuan Zhang, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer +21

NIRC2, the Near Infrared Camera 2 on the Keck II telescope, was recently upgraded with a new suite of polarimetric observing modes. The new polarimetry modes (referred to as NIRC2-…

astro-ph.IM2026

Enabling Quantitative Polarimetry for Keck/NIRC2: Preliminary Mueller Matrix Model Calibration

Manxuan Zhang, Briley L. Lewis, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer +27

The Keck/NIRC2 infrared imager was upgraded in 2025 with dual-beam polarimetric observing modes spanning approximately 1.1--4.1 microns (JHKL' bands). We present a preliminary JHK…

astro-ph.IM2026

An open-source data processing pipeline for Keck / NIRC2-Polarimetry

Briley L. Lewis, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Rebecca Zhang +3

The Keck/NIRC2 infrared imager was recently upgraded with a new suite of polarimetric observing modes. This polarimetry upgrade (referred to as NIRC2-Pol) will open up a wide range…

astro-ph.IM2026

Updating the SCExAO/CHARIS polarimetric calibration following the Nasmyth beam-switcher upgrade

Thomas McIntosh, Manxuan Zhang, Briley L. Lewis +18

Subaru/SCExAO/CHARIS enables near-infrared integral field spectropolarimetry. Quantitative polarimetry is useful for a variety of science cases, particularly measurements related t…

astro-ph.IM2026

Visible-Light High-Contrast Polarimetry with MagAO-X: Characterization and Initial Results

Miles Lucas, Laird Close, Jared R. Males +22

MagAO-X is a visible-light extreme adaptive optics instrument on the 6.5 meter Magellan Clay Telescope, recently upgraded to enable high-contrast polarimetric differential imaging…

astro-ph.EP2026

GRaTer-JAX: An Accelerated Package for Debris Disk Modeling

Mihir Kondapalli, Briley L. Lewis, Jaren N. Ashcraft +1

GRaTer-JAX is a Python package for modeling debris disks, disks of dust around stars that pro- vide important clues about the formation, structure, and evolution of planetary syste…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST NIRCam Reveals the Largest Known M-dwarf Debris Disk Around TWA 10 and New Scattered-Light Observations of the TWA 25 Debris Disk

Katie A. Crotts, Aarynn L. Carter, Beth Biller +26

We present JWST NIRCam observations of two M-dwarf systems located in the TW Hydra association, TWA 10 and TWA 25. Both systems harbor detected debris disks in the F200W and F444W…

astro-ph.EP2025

Discovery of a Debris Disk Around TWA 20

Skyler Palatnick, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Jingwen Zhang +20

We report the discovery of a debris disk surrounding the M3 star, TWA 20, revealed by JWST coronagraphic observations using the Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam). With reference-star d…

astro-ph.EP2025

Characterization of the Host Binary of the Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 143811 AB b

Anne E. Peck, William Roberson, Eric L. Nielsen +50

HD~143811~AB is the host star to the directly imaged planet HD~143811~AB~b, which was recently discovered using data from the Gemini Planet Imager and Keck NIRC2. A member of the S…

astro-ph.SR2024

SCExAO/CHARIS Spectroscopic Characterization of Cloudy L/T Transition Companion Brown Dwarf HIP 93398 B

Briley Lewis, Yiting Li, Aidan Gibbs +10

Brown dwarfs with measured dynamical masses and spectra from direct imaging are benchmarks that anchor substellar atmosphere cooling and evolution models. We present Subaru SCExAO/…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

Multiband polarimetric imaging of HD 34700 with SCExAO/CHARIS

Minghan Chen, Kellon Lawson, Timothy D. Brandt +5

We present Subaru/SCExAO + CHARIS broadband (JHK) integral field spectroscopy of HD 34700 A in polarized light. CHARIS has the unique ability to obtain polarized integral field ima…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Keck-HGCA Pilot Survey II: Direct Imaging Discovery of HD 63754 B, a ~20 au Massive Companion Near the Hydrogen Burning Limit

Yiting Li, Timothy D. Brandt, Kyle Franson +15

We present the joint astrometric and direct imaging discovery, mass measurement, and orbital analysis of HD 63754 B (HIP 38216 B), a companion near the stellar-substellar boundary…

astro-ph.EP2024

Subaru/CHARIS High-Resolution Mode Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf Companion HD 33632 Ab

Aidan Gibbs, Briley Lewis, Michael Fitzgerald +6

Brown dwarfs (BD) are model degenerate in age and mass. High-contrast imaging and spectroscopy of BD companions to host stars where the mass and age can be independently constraine…

astro-ph.EP2024

Gemini Planet Imager Observations of a Resolved Low-Inclination Debris Disk Around HD 156623

Briley L. Lewis, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Thomas M. Esposito +12

The 16 Myr-old A0V star HD 156623 in the Scorpius--Centaurus association hosts a high-fractional-luminosity debris disk, recently resolved in scattered light for the first time by…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 18 cited

Direct-imaging Discovery of a Substellar Companion Orbiting the Accelerating Variable Star, HIP 39017

Taylor L. Tobin, Thayne Currie, Yiting Li +23

We present the direct-imaging discovery of a substellar companion (a massive planet or low-mass brown dwarf) to the young, Doradus-type variable star, HIP 39017 (HD 65526). The…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager II: Constraints on Dust Density Distribution Using Empirically-Informed Scattering Phase Functions

Justin Hom, Jennifer Patience, Christine H. Chen +40

Spatially-resolved images of debris disks are necessary to determine disk morphological properties and the scattering phase function (SPF) which quantifies the brightness of scatte…

astro-ph.EP2023

A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager I: An Empirical Search for Perturbations from Planetary Companions in Polarized Light Images

Katie A. Crotts, Brenda C. Matthews, Gaspard Duchêne +37

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) has excelled in imaging debris disks in the near-infrared. The GPI Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) imaged twenty-four debris disks in polarized -band lig…