14 papers
A Spitzer Space Telescope Exploration Science Program to Search for Y Dwarf Variability
Michael C. Cushing, Jesica L. Trucks, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman +10
We present the results of a Spitzer Space Telescope Exploration Science Program to search for and characterize variability in Y dwarfs. We observed 14 Y dwarfs over a 24 hr period…
JADES: An Abundance of Ultra-Distant T- and Y-Dwarfs in Deep Extragalactic Data
Kevin N. Hainline, Jakob M. Helton, Brittany E. Miles +14
Ultra-cool T- (T 500 - 1200 K) and Y-dwarfs (T K) have historically been found only a few hundred parsecs from the Sun.…
JWST spectral retrieval of cold directly imaged planet WD0806 b and the first measurement of altitude-dependent K in exoplanet atmospheres
Ben W. P. Lew, Thomas Roellig, Natasha E. Batalha +10
WD0806 b is a rare exoplanet companion orbiting a white dwarf, currently with a projected orbital distance of 2500 au. The Spitzer mid-IR photometry suggests that the temperature i…
Large-amplitude Variability Driven by Giant Dust Storms on a Planetary-mass Companion
Xianyu Tan, Xi Zhang, Mark S. Marley +17
Large-amplitude variations are commonly observed in the atmospheres of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarfs. VHS 1256B, the most variable known planet-mass object, exhibits…
The Sonora Substellar Atmosphere Models VI. Red Diamondback: Extending Diamondback with SPHINX for Brown Dwarf Early Evolution
C. Evan Davis, Jonathan J. Fortney, Aishwarya Iyer +5
We extend the Sonora Diamondback brown dwarf evolution models to higher effective temperatures to treat the evolution of younger, higher mass objects. Due to an upper temperature l…
Condensation Clouds in Substellar Atmospheres with Virga
Natasha E. Batalha, Caoimhe M. Rooney, Channon Visscher +14
Here we present an open-source cloud model for substellar atmospheres, called Virga. The Virga-v0 series has already been widely adopted in the literature. It is written in Python…