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most citedLeaning Sideways: VHS 1256-1257 b is a Super-Jupiter with a Uranus-like Obliquity

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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.SR2026

Multi-Epoch Stability in the Rotational Modulation of the Planetary-Mass Companion Ross 458C

Elena Manjavacas, Jared Bull, Paulo Miles-Paez +7

Spectroscopic variability is detected in brown dwarfs across all spectral types, suggesting atmospheric patchiness in brown dwarf atmospheres. We present JWST/NIRSpec time series o…

astro-ph.SR2026

Deep H Imaging Survey of IC 348 with the Hubble Space Telescope: I. Accretion Properties of Stellar and Substellar Objects

Lillian Yushu Jiang, Brendan P. Bowler, Yifan Zhou +5

Accretion governs the growth of young stars and the early evolution of their circumstellar disks, yet population-level measurements of accretion are often hampered by heterogeneous…

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

The JWST weather report: Unravelling the atmospheric variability of isolated worlds using principal component analysis

Merle A. Schrader, Johanna M. Vos, Evert Nasedkin +17

Brown dwarf variability directly probes atmospheric dynamics beyond the Solar System, and recent JWST time-resolved spectroscopy has opened a new window into these processes. Princ…

astro-ph.EP2026

Photometric Variability and Rotation of Beta Pictoris b from JWST NIRCam Coronagraphic Imaging

Yifan Zhou, Beth A. Biller, Aarynn L. Carter +28

We report the detection of photometric variability in the directly imaged super-Jupiter Pictoris b. Using JWST NIRCam dual-band coronagraphic imaging, we conducted a 16-hour co…

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★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

Characterizing the Time Variability of 2M1207 A+b with JWST NIRSpec/PRISM

Arthur D. Adams, Yifan Zhou, Gabriel Dominique-Marleau +13

We present JWST NIRSpec/PRISM IFU time-resolved observations of 2M1207 A and b (TWA 27), a Myr binary system consisting of a K sub-stellar primary hosting a $…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 15 cited

The JWST Weather Report: retrieving temperature variations, auroral heating, and static cloud coverage on SIMP-0136

Evert Nasedkin, Merle Schrader, Johanna M. Vos +15

SIMP-0136 is a T2.5 brown dwarf whose young age (~Myr) and low mass (~M) make it an ideal analogue for the directly imaged exoplanet population. With…

astro-ph.SR2025

The JWST weather report from the nearest brown dwarfs II: Consistent variability mechanisms over 7 months revealed by 1-14 m NIRSpec + MIRI monitoring of WISE 1049AB

Xueqing Chen, Beth A. Biller, Xianyu Tan +22

We present a new epoch of JWST spectroscopic variability monitoring of the benchmark binary brown dwarf WISE 1049AB, the closest, brightest brown dwarfs known. Our 8-hour MIRI low…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The JWST Weather Report from the Isolated Exoplanet Analog SIMP 0136+0933: Pressure-Dependent Variability Driven by Multiple Mechanisms

Allison M. McCarthy, Johanna M. Vos, Philip S. Muirhead +17

Isolated planetary-mass objects share their mass range with planets but do not orbit a star. They lack the necessary mass to support fusion in their cores and thermally radiate the…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 17 cited

Leaning Sideways: VHS 1256-1257 b is a Super-Jupiter with a Uranus-like Obliquity

Michael Poon, Marta L. Bryan, Hanno Rein +4

We constrain the angular momentum architecture of VHS J125601.92-125723.9, a 140 20 Myr old hierarchical triple system composed of a low-mass binary and a widely-separated pl…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Retrieved Atmospheric Properties of the Sub-stellar Object VHS 1256 b from Analyzing HST, VLT and JWST Spectra

Anna Lueber, Kevin Heng, Brendan P. Bowler +3

Motivated by the observed ~30% variations in flux from the L7 dwarf VHS 1256 b, we subjected its time-resolved Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3 spectra (measured in two epochs in…