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20152026
most citedThe JWST/NIRISS Deep Spectroscopic Survey for Young Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets

25 citations · 67 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

The JWST Sub-Jupiters Survey: Direct Imaging Discovery of a Giant Planet and a Debris Disk Around the Young M-dwarf RX J0534.0-0221

Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez, Jason J. Wang, Kevin Wagner +47

We present the discovery of RX J0534.0-0221 b, a giant planet orbiting an M-dwarf star in the Pictoris moving group. RX J0534 was originally observed with JWST/NIRCam in the F4…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects. IV. Detailed Imaging of the Protoplanetary Disk around TW Hya

Yu-Chia Lin, Jarron Leisenring, Schuyler G. Wolff +14

As the nearest protoplanetary disk to Earth ( pc), TW Hya is one of the most studied protoplanetary disks and a critical benchmark for testing planet formation theories.…

astro-ph.EP2026

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems VIII: patchy forsterite and enstatite clouds in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b, retrieval lessons learned and outlook to the future

Niall Whiteford, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Ben Burningham +123

JWST defines a new era for the data-driven approach of retrieval modelling, which has become a cornerstone tool for the statistical inference of exoplanetary and brown dwarf proper…

astro-ph.EP2025

A complex structure of escaping helium spanning more than half the orbit of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121\,b

Romain Allart, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Yann Carteret +19

Atmospheric escape of planets on short orbital periods, driven by the host star's irradiation, influences their evolution, composition, and atmospheric dynamics. Our main avenue to…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Direct Measurement of Extinction in a Planet-Hosting Gap

G. Cugno, S. Facchini, F. Alarcon +12

Recent disk observations have revealed multiple indirect signatures of forming gas giant planets, but high-contrast imaging has rarely confirmed the presence of the suspected pertu…

astro-ph.EP2025

Ross 458c: Gas Giant or Brown Dwarf?

William W. Meynardie, Michael R. Meyer, Ryan J. MacDonald +10

Ross 458c is a widely separated planetary mass companion at a distance of 1100 AU from its host binary, Ross 458AB. It is a member of a class of very low-mass companions at distanc…

astro-ph.EP2025

Precise Constraints on the Energy Budget of WASP-121 b from its JWST NIRISS/SOSS Phase Curve

Jared Splinter, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Robert C. Frazier +20

Ultra-hot Jupiters exhibit day-to-night temperature contrasts upwards of 1000 K due to competing effects of strong winds, short radiative timescales, magnetic drag, and H2 dissocia…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

First Results from WINERED: Detection of Emission Lines from Neutral Iron and a Combined Set of Trace Species on the Dayside of WASP-189 b

Lennart van Sluijs, Emily Rauscher, Eliza M. -R. Kempton +9

Ground and space-based observations have revealed that Ultra Hot Jupiters (UHJs,~) typically have inverted thermal profiles, while cooler hot Jupiters…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 10 cited

Enriched volatiles and refractories but deficient titanium on the dayside atmosphere of WASP-121b revealed by JWST/NIRISS

Stefan Pelletier, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Jared Splinter +21

With dayside temperatures elevated enough for all atmospheric constituents to be present in gas form, ultra-hot Jupiters offer a unique opportunity to probe the composition of gian…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Small Separation A-Star Companion Population: Tentative Signatures of Enhanced Multiplicity with Primary Mass

Matthew De Furio, Tyler Gardner, John D. Monnier +6

We present updated results from our near-infrared long-baseline interferometry (LBI) survey to constrain the multiplicity properties of intermediate-mass A-type stars within 80 pc.…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Assessing robustness and bias in 1D retrievals of 3D Global Circulation Models at high spectral resolution: a WASP-76 b simulation case study in emission

Lennart van Sluijs, Hayley Beltz, Isaac Malsky +4

High-resolution spectroscopy (HRS) of exoplanet atmospheres has successfully detected many chemical species and is quickly moving toward detailed characterization of the chemical a…

astro-ph.EP2025

Follow-Up Exploration of the TWA 7 Planet-Disk System with JWST NIRCam

Katie A. Crotts, Aarynn L. Carter, Kellen Lawson +39

The young M-star TWA 7 hosts a bright and near face-on debris disk, which has been imaged from the optical to the submillimeter. The disk displays multiple complex substructures su…

astro-ph.EP2025

Probing the Outskirts of M Dwarf Planetary Systems with a Cycle 1 JWST NIRCam Coronagraphy Survey

Ellis Bogat, Joshua E. Schlieder, Kellen D. Lawson +18

The population of giant planets on wide orbits around low-mass M dwarf stars is poorly understood, but the unprecedented sensitivity of JWST NIRCam coronagraphic imaging now provid…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South II -- WASP-121 b has super-stellar C/O and refractory-to-volatile ratios

Peter C. B. Smith, Jorge A. Sanchez, Michael R. Line +19

A primary goal of exoplanet science is to measure the atmospheric composition of gas giants in order to infer their formation and migration histories. Common diagnostics for planet…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Searching for Planets Orbiting Vega with the James Webb Space Telescope

Charles Beichman, Geoffrey Bryden, Jorge Llop-Sayson +15

The most prominent of the IRAS debris disk systems, Lyrae (Vega), at a distance of 7.7 pc, has been observed by both the NIRCam and MIRI instruments on the James Webb Space Tel…

astro-ph.SR2024

Unveiling two deeply embedded young protostars in the S68N Class 0 protostellar core with JWST/NIRSpec

Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec, Ben W. P. Lew, Thomas P. Greene +11

The near-infrared (NIR) emission of the youngest protostars still needs to be characterized to better understand the evolution of their accretion and ejection activity. We analyze…

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.SR2024★ 15 cited

Identification of a turnover in the initial mass function of a young stellar cluster down to 0.5 M

Matthew De Furio, Michael R. Meyer, Thomas Greene +11

A successful theory of star formation should predict the number of objects as a function of their mass produced through star-forming events. Previous studies in star-forming region…

astro-ph.EP2024

JWST/NIRCam Detection of the Fomalhaut C Debris Disk in Scattered Light

Kellen Lawson, Joshua E. Schlieder, Jarron M. Leisenring +20

Observations of debris disks offer important insights into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Though M dwarfs make up approximately 80% of nearby stars, very few M-d…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Mid-Infrared Spectrum of the Disk around the Forming Companion GQ Lup B Revealed by JWST/MIRI

Gabriele Cugno, Polychronis Patapis, Andrea Banzatti +5

GQ Lup B is a forming brown dwarf companion () showing evidence for an infrared excess associated with a disk surronding the companion itself. Here we present mid-i…

astro-ph.EP2024

JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects III: Detailed Imaging of the Nebular Environment Around the HL Tau Disk

Camryn Mullin, Ruobing Dong, Jarron Leisenring +13

As part of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) program "Direct Imaging of YSOs" (program ID 1179), we use JWST NIRCam's direct imaging mode in F…

astro-ph.EP2024

High-precision atmospheric characterization of a Y dwarf with JWST NIRSpec G395H spectroscopy: isotopologue, C/O ratio, metallicity, and the abundances of six molecular species

Ben W. P. Lew, Thomas Roellig, Natasha E. Batalha +19

The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) marks a pivotal moment for precise atmospheric characterization of Y dwarfs, the coldest brown dwarf spectral type. In this stud…

astro-ph.SR2024

The outflow of the protostar in B335: I

Klaus W. Hodapp, Laurie L. Chu, Thomas Greene +10

The isolated globule B335 contains a single, low luminosity Class 0 protostar associated with a bipolar nebula and outflow system seen nearly perpendicular to its axis. We observed…

astro-ph.EP2024

JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects. II. Deep Constraints on Giant Planets and a Planet Candidate Outside of the Spiral Disk Around SAO 206462

Gabriele Cugno, Jarron Leisenring, Kevin R. Wagner +17

We present JWST/NIRCam F187N, F200W, F405N and F410M direct imaging data of the disk surrounding SAO 206462. Previous images show a very structured disk, with a pair of spiral arms…