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most citedDiscovery of a Nearby Habitable Zone Super-Earth Candidate Amenable to Direct Imaging

2 citations · 6 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Mid-infrared Imaging of SR 12 c with JWST/MIRI: Grain Growth in an Evolved Circumplanetary Disk

Ya-Lin Wu, Claire O. Finley, Brendan P. Bowler +13

The physical properties of circumplanetary disks offer insights into the formation of giant planets and their satellites. The circumbinary planetary-mass companion SR 12 c (1200 au…

astro-ph.IM2026

Pre-shipment optical characterization of the SCALES instrument

Isabel J. Kain, Reni Kupke, Daren Dillon +31

The Slicer Combined with an Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) instrument is a 1-5 micron imager and 2-5 micron integral field spectrograph, currently being comm…

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.EP2026

Ultraviolet Imaging of SR 12 c with HST/WFC3: Accretion and Variability of a Giant Planet at the End Stages of Growth

Claire O. Finley, Brendan P. Bowler, Ya-Lin Wu +12

Many details of the gas accretion phase during giant planet formation remain untested. We present new 0.2$\unicode{x2013}$0.7 m UV-through-red optical imaging of the young, wide…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Keck Observations in the INfrared of Taurus and Oph Exoplanets And Ultracool dwarfs (KOINTREAU) I: A Planetary-Mass Companion and a Disk-Obscured Stellar Companion Discovered in Taurus

Samuel A. U. Walker, Michael C. Liu, Dimitri Mawet +10

We present the first discoveries from Keck Observations in the INfrared of Taurus and Oph Exoplanets And Ultracool dwarfs (KOINTREAU), an adaptive optics imaging survey of youn…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Discovery of a Nearby Habitable Zone Super-Earth Candidate Amenable to Direct Imaging

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Jack Lubin +31

We present the discovery of GJ 251 c, a candidate super-Earth orbiting in the Habitable Zone (HZ) of its M dwarf host star. Using high-precision Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF)…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Investing in the Unrivaled Potential of Wide-Separation Sub-Jupiter Exoplanet Detection and Characterisation with JWST -- Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST White Paper

Aarynn L. Carter, Rachel Bowens-Rubin, Per Calissendorff +15

We advocate for a large scale imaging survey of nearby young moving groups and star-forming regions to directly detect exoplanets over an unexplored range of masses, ages and orbit…

astro-ph.IM2024

Prioritizing High-Precision Photometric Monitoring of Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Companions with JWST -- Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST White Paper

Ben J. Sutlieff, Xueqing Chen, Pengyu Liu +15

We advocate for the prioritization of high-precision photometric monitoring of exoplanet and brown dwarf companions to detect brightness variability arising from features in their…

astro-ph.EP2024

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems V: Do Self-Consistent Atmospheric Models Represent JWST Spectra? A Showcase With VHS 1256 b

Simon Petrus, Niall Whiteford, Polychronis Patapis +119

The unprecedented medium-resolution (R~1500-3500) near- and mid-infrared (1-18um) spectrum provided by JWST for the young (140+/-20Myr) low-mass (12-20MJup) L-T transition (L7) com…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Recovering simulated planet and disk signals using SCALES aperture masking

Mackenzie Lach, Steph Sallum, Ravinder Banyal +29

The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) instrument is a lenslet-based integral field spectrograph that will operate at 2 to 5 microns, imagin…

astro-ph.IM2023

Simulating medium-spectral-resolution exoplanet characterization with SCALES angular/reference differential imaging

Aditi Desai, Stephanie E. Sallum, Ravinder Banyal +30

SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) is a 2 - 5 micron high-contrast lenslet-based integral field spectrograph (IFS) designed to characterize…

astro-ph.IM2023

The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES): driving science cases and expected outcomes

Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer, Deno Stelter +34

The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) is a m, high-contrast integral field spectrograph (IFS) currently being built for Keck Observa…

astro-ph.EP2023

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems III: Aperture Masking Interferometric Observations of the star HIP 65426 at 3.8 um

Shrishmoy Ray, Steph Sallum, Sasha Hinkley +121

We present aperture masking interferometry (AMI) observations of the star HIP 65426 at as a part of the JWST Direct Imaging Early Release Science (ERS) program obtai…

astro-ph.EP2023

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems IV: NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry Performance and Lessons Learned

Steph Sallum, Shrishmoy Ray, Jens Kammerer +120

We present a performance analysis for the aperture masking interferometry (AMI) mode on board the James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST/NI…