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20222026
most citedImaging detection of the inner dust belt and the four exoplanets in the HR8799 system with JWST's MIRI coronagraph

31 citations · 87 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Worlds Next Door. V. A Candidate Solar System Scale Super-Jupiter in the 61 Cygni Binary System

Aniket Sanghi, Billy Quarles, Andrea S. J. Lin +16

We present new constraints on a candidate third companion in the 61 Cygni binary system-one of the closest neighbors to our solar system (3.5 pc), the first stars to have a measure…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST/MIRI Imaging Search for Kinematically Detected Protoplanetary Candidates

G. Cugno, M. Benisty, R. Teague +32

Kinematic perturbations observed with ALMA in CO line emission provide evidence for a population of embedded giant protoplanets shaping the structure of protoplanetary disks. We pr…

astro-ph.EP2026

A semi-analytical surrogate model for giant planet evolution: bypassing ordinary differential equation solvers with localised thermodynamics, softplus asymptotes, and B-spline photometry

Christian Wilkinson, Jonas Wehrung-Montpezat, Benjamin Charnay +7

Context. Evolutionary models translate the observable luminosity, temperature, and colours of giant planets and brown dwarfs into mass and age. Generating their cooling tracks norm…

astro-ph.EP2026

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. VII. Molecular Mapping Performance with JWST/MIRI MRS: VHS 1256 b as a case study

Mathilde Mâlin, Anthony Boccaletti, Benjamin Charnay +29

VHS 1256 b was the first planetary-mass companion to be observed with the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (JWST/MIRI) using the Medium-Resolution Spectrometer…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Direct Images of CO2 Absorption in the Atmosphere of a Super-Jupiter: Enhanced Metallicity Suggestive of Formation in a Disk

William O. Balmer, Laurent Pueyo, Ashley Messier +15

It is unclear how directly imaged substellar companions with masses near the deuterium burning limit form, because these objects are rare and their bulk properties are not diagnost…

astro-ph.EP2026

Panchromatic View of the Frigid Jovian Exoplanet COCONUTS-2 b

Matthieu Ravet, Mickaël Bonnefoy, Gaël Chauvin +24

We use a high signal-to-noise MIRI-LRS spectrum (5.45 - 11 m, R ) of COCONUTS-2~b revealing prominent molecular features of HO, CH and NH. This dataset…

astro-ph.EP2026

A second visit to Eps Ind Ab with JWST: new photometry confirms ammonia and suggests thick clouds in the exoplanet atmosphere of the closest super-Jupiter

Elisabeth C. Matthews, James Mang, Aarynn L. Carter +9

With JWST, we are directly imaging cold (~200-300K), solar-age giant exoplanets for the first time. At these temperatures many molecular features appear and water-ice clouds may co…

astro-ph.EP2026

Worlds Next Door. IV. Mapping the Late Stages of Giant Planet Evolution with a Precise Dynamical Mass and Luminosity for Ind Ab

Aniket Sanghi, William Thompson, James Mang +21

We present new JWST/NIRCam 4-5 m (F410M, F430M) and JWST/MIRI 18-25 m (F1800W, F2100W, F2550W) imaging detections of the nearby (3.6 pc) cold (275 K) gas giant exoplanet …

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Exomoon search with VLTI/GRAVITY around the substellar companion HD 206893 B

Q. Kral, J. Wang, J. Kammerer +130

Direct astrometric detection of exomoons remains unexplored. This study presents the first application of high-precision astrometry to search for exomoons around substellar compani…

astro-ph.IM2025

A socio-demographic study of the exoplanet direct imaging community II

Lucie Leboulleux, Niyati Desai, Daniel Echeverri +9

Recognizing and addressing under-representation, exclusion, and problematic behavior within astronomy and astrophysics is crucial. In 2019, a survey was conducted at the Spirit of…

astro-ph.EP2025

JWST-TST High Contrast: Medium-resolution spectroscopy reveals a carbon-rich circumplanetary disk around the young accreting exoplanet Delorme 1 AB b

Mathilde Mâlin, Kimberly Ward-Duong, Sierra L. Grant +21

Young accreting planetary-mass objects are thought to draw material from a circumplanetary disk (CPD) composed of gas and dust. While the gas within the disk is expected to dispers…

astro-ph.EP2025

A JWST/MIRI view of k Andromedae b: Refining its mass, age, and physical parameters

N. Godoy, E. Choquet, E. Serabyn +7

Context. kAndb is a substellar companion near the planet-brown dwarf boundary, orbiting a B9IV star at 50-100 au. Estimates of its age and mass vary, fueling a decade-long debate.…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

JWST/MIRI observations of the young TWA 27 system: hydrocarbon disk chemistry, silicate clouds, evidence for a CPD

P. Patapis, M. Morales-Calderón, A. M. Arabhavi +39

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) enables the characterisation of young self-luminous gas giants at previously inaccessible wavelengths, r…

astro-ph.EP2025

MIRI-JWST mid-infrared direct imaging of the debris disk of HD106906

Daniel Rouan, Anthony Boccaletti, Clément Perrot +20

We report MIRI-JWST coronagraphic observations at 11.3 and 15.5 mic of the debris disk around the young star HD 106906. The observations were made to characterize the structure, te…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 22 cited

JWST-TST High Contrast: Living on the Wedge, or, NIRCam Bar Coronagraphy Reveals CO in the HR 8799 and 51 Eri Exoplanets' Atmospheres

William O. Balmer, Jens Kammerer, Laurent Pueyo +19

High-contrast observations with JWST can reveal key composition and vertical mixing dependent absorption features in the spectra of directly imaged planets across the 3-5 m wave…

astro-ph.EP2025

Evidence for a sub-jovian planet in the young TWA7 disk

A. -M. Lagrange, C. Wilkinson, M. Mâlin +26

Planets are thought to form from dust and gas in protoplanetary disks, and debris disks are the remnants of planet formation. Aged a few Myr up to a few Gyr, debris disks have lost…

astro-ph.EP2025

First unambiguous detection of ammonia in the atmosphere of a planetary mass companion with JWST/MIRI coronagraphs

Mathilde Mâlin, Anthony Boccaletti, Clément Perrot +28

The newly accessible mid-infrared (MIR) window offered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for exoplanet imaging is expected to provide valuable information to characterize th…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Serendipitous observation of a white dwarf companion to a JWST/MIRI coronagraphic calibrator

Alexander Venner, Mary Anne Limbach, Mathilde Mâlin +3

We present the unplanned detection of a white dwarf companion to the star HD 218261 in mid-infrared (10-16 m) observations with JWST/MIRI. This star was observed as a calibrator…

astro-ph.EP2024

Unveiling the HD 95086 system at mid-infrared wavelengths with JWST/MIRI

Mathilde Mâlin, Anthony Boccaletti, Clément Perrot +26

Mid-infrared imaging of exoplanets and disks is now possible with the coronagraphs of the MIRI on the JWST. This wavelength range unveils new features of young directly imaged syst…

astro-ph.EP2024

A new treatment of telluric and stellar features for medium resolution spectroscopy and molecular mapping. Application to the abundance determination on Beta Pic b

F. Kiefer, M. Bonnefoy, B. Charnay +5

Molecular mapping is a supervised method exploiting the spectral diversity of integral field spectrographs to detect and characterize resolved exoplanets blurred into the stellar h…

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.EP2023★ 31 cited

Imaging detection of the inner dust belt and the four exoplanets in the HR8799 system with JWST's MIRI coronagraph

Boccaletti A., Mâlin M., Baudoz P. +35

The multi planet system HR8799 is the first target observed with MIRI's coronagraphs as part of the MIRI-EC Guaranteed Time Observations exoplanets programme in Nov. 2022. We obtai…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 14 cited

The beta Pictoris system: Setting constraints on the planet and the disk structures at mid-IR wavelengths with NEAR

Nour Skaf, Anthony Boccaletti, Eric Pantin +26

[abridged] We analyzed mid-infrared high-contrast coronagraphic images of the beta Pictoris system, taking advantage of the NEAR experiment using the VLT/VISIR instrument. The goal…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 4 cited

Combining Photometry and Astrometry to Improve Orbit Retrieval of Directly Imaged Exoplanets

Margaret Bruna, Nicolas B. Cowan, Julia Sheffler +3

Future missions like Roman, HabEx, and LUVOIR will directly image exoplanets in reflected light. While current near infrared direct imaging searches are only sensitive to young, se…