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20142026
most citedThe Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

440 citations · 476 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST reveals how black holes are fed: kiloparsec-scale multiphase filaments feed sub-kiloparsec circumnuclear disks

Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Hyunseop Choi, Minghao Guo +35

The Centaurus cluster is one of the most important archetypes of radio-mode AGN feedback, with its central galaxy, NGC 4696, launching powerful jets that inflate X-ray cavities and…

astro-ph.SR2026

The MIRI Excess around Degenerates (MEAD) Survey II: A Probable Planet detected via IR Excess around WD 0644+025

Sabrina Poulsen, John Debes, Ashley Messier +14

The MIRI Excess Around Degenerates (MEAD) Survey is a cycle 2 JWST program designed to image nearby white dwarfs with MIRI at 10 and 15 microns. This survey targeted 56 white dwarf…

astro-ph.SR2025

Follow-up Observations of Candidate White Dwarf Planets with MIRI

Fergal Mullally, Susan E. Mullally, Misty Cracraft +6

We report on second-epoch imaging of two candidate planet-hosting white dwarfs stars, WD2105-82 and WD1202-232. Both stars showed evidence of resolved, planet-mass candidate compan…

astro-ph.SR2025

The MIRI Excesses around Degenerates (MEAD) Survey I: A candidate cold brown dwarf in orbit around the nearby white dwarf 2MASS J09424023-4637176

Loïc Albert, Sabrina R. Poulsen, Érika Le Bourdais +17

The MIRI Excesses Around Degenerates Survey is a Cycle 2 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Survey program designed to image nearby white dwarfs in the mid-IR with the MIRI imaging…

astro-ph.GA2025

Composition of planetary debris around the white dwarf GD 362

William T. Reach, Mukremin Kilic, Carey M. Lisse +9

White dwarf stars with high abundances of heavy elements in their atmospheres and infrared excesses are believed to be accreting planetary material. GD 362 is one of the most heavi…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Metal Polluted White Dwarfs with 21 μm IR excesses from JWST/MIRI: Planets or Dust?

John H. Debes, Sabrina Poulsen, Ashley Messier +13

White dwarfs with metal pollution are caused by the accretion of rocky dust from tidally disrupted minor bodies and are signposts for planetary systems. These minor bodies are pert…

astro-ph.SR2024

A Novel Survey for Young Substellar Objects with the W-band Filter. VII. Water-Bearing Objects in the Core of the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

Tanvi Sharma, Wen-Ping Chen, Beth Biller +6

We present a study of very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in the rich star-forming core of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The selection of the sample relies on detecting the inhe…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

JWST Resolves CIA Features in White Dwarfs

Simon Blouin, Mukremin Kilic, Loic Albert +2

Infrared-faint white dwarfs are cool white dwarfs exhibiting significant infrared flux deficits, most often attributed to collision-induced absorption (CIA) from H-He in mixed…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 25 cited

The JWST/NIRISS Deep Spectroscopic Survey for Young Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets

Adam B. Langeveld, Aleks Scholz, Koraljka Mužić +9

The discovery and characterization of free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPMOs) is fundamental to our understanding of star and planet formation. Here we report results from an…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140 b with JWST/NIRISS

Charles Cadieux, René Doyon, Ryan J. MacDonald +20

LHS 1140 b is the second-closest temperate transiting planet to the Earth with an equilibrium temperature low enough to support surface liquid water. At 1.7300.025 R,…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

JWST Directly Images Giant Planet Candidates Around Two Metal-Polluted White Dwarf Stars

Susan E. Mullally, John Debes, Misty Cracraft +9

We report the discovery of two directly imaged, giant planet candidates orbiting the metal-rich DAZ white dwarfs WD 1202-232 and WD 2105-82. JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) d…

astro-ph.EP2023

A MIRI Search for Planets and Dust Around WD 2149+02

Sabrina Poulsen, John Debes, Misty Cracraft +9

The launch of JWST has ushered in a new era of high precision infrared astronomy, allowing us to probe nearby white dwarfs for cold dust, exoplanets, and tidally heated exomoons. W…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 440 cited

The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

Jane Rigby, Marshall Perrin, Michael McElwain +623

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performanc…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 6 cited

Observations of Transiting Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), December 2014

Charles Beichman, Bjoern Benneke, Heather Knutson +44

This article summarizes a workshop held on March, 2014, on the potential of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revolutionize our knowledge of the physical properties of exopl…