7 papers
JWST-TST High Contrast: First Direct Spectroscopy of GJ 504 b reveals Clouds and Possible Metal Enrichment
Aneesh Baburaj, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Marshall Perrin +27
Characterizing the coldest directly imaged companions through direct spectroscopy has only recently become possible with the James Webb Space Telescope. We present moderate-resolut…
Silicate Sundogs: Probing the Effects of Grain Directionality in Exoplanet Observations
Elijah Mullens, Nikole K. Lewis
Crystalline ice in Earth's atmosphere can produce spectacular phenomena due to orientation-dependent attenuation, such as sun dogs and halos, providing diagnostics of the external…
Constraining Ongoing Volcanic Outgassing Rates and Interior Compositions of Extrasolar Planets with Mass Measurements of Plasma Tori
V. Abby Boehm, Darryl Z. Seligman, Nikole K. Lewis
We present a novel method of constraining volcanic activity on extrasolar terrestrial worlds via characterization of circumstellar plasma tori. Our work generalizes the physics of…
An Assessment of Organics Detection and Characterization on the Surface of Europa with Infrared Spectroscopy
Ishan Mishra, Nikole Lewis, Jonathan Lunine +1
Organics, if they do exist on Europa, may only be present in trace amounts on the surface. NASA's upcoming mission Europa Clipper is going to provide global, high quality data of t…
Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Sub-Neptune Exoplanet Hazes Through Laboratory Experiments
Lori Huseby, Sarah E. Moran, Neil Pearson +9
Temperate sub-Neptune exoplanets could contain large inventories of water in various phases, such as water-worlds with water-rich atmospheres or even oceans. Both space-based and g…
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 wav…