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most citedHubble Asteroid Hunter: II. Identifying strong gravitational lenses in HST images with crowdsourcing

32 citations · 117 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek

Ben J. Sutlieff, Markus J. Bonse, Valentin Christiaens +94

We report the direct imaging discovery of a third exoplanet in the Pictoris system. We detect Pictoris d ( Pic d) in non-coronagraphic observations obtained with VLT/ERI…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Surrogate-Accelerated Bayesian Inversion for Exoplanet Interior Characterization

Tijn De Wringer, Caroline Dorn, Emily O. Garvin +1

Characterizing the interior structure of exoplanets is an inverse problem often solved using Bayesian inference, but this approach is hampered by the high computational cost of pla…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Consequences of Non-Gaussian Instrumental Noise in Perturbed Nulling Interferometers

Felix A. Dannert, Philipp A. Huber, Thomas Birbacher +6

With the astrophysics community working towards the first observations and characterizations of Earth-like exoplanets, interest in space-based nulling interferometry has been renew…

astro-ph.EP2025

Detecting Atmospheric CO2 Trends as Population-Level Signatures for Long-Term Stable Water Oceans and Biotic Activity on Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets

Janina Hansen, Daniel Angerhausen, Sascha P. Quanz +6

Identifying key observables is essential for enhancing our knowledge of exoplanet habitability and biospheres, as well as improving future mission capabilities. While currently cha…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

What if we find nothing? Bayesian analysis of the statistical information of null results in future exoplanet habitability and biosignature surveys

Daniel Angerhausen, Amedeo Balbi, Andjelka B. Kovačević +2

Future telescopes will survey temperate, terrestrial exoplanets to estimate the frequency of habitable () or inhabited () planets. This study aims…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

High-contrast spectroscopy with the new VLT/ERIS instrument: Molecular maps and radial velocity of the gas giant AF Lep b

Jean Hayoz, Markus Johannes Bonse, Felix Dannert +66

The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) is the new Adaptive-Optics (AO) assisted Infrared instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Its refurbished Integral Fiel…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 20 cited

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XIII. The Value of Combining Thermal Emission and Reflected Light for the Characterization of Earth Twins

E. Alei, S. P. Quanz, B. S. Konrad +9

Following the recommendations to NASA and ESA, the search for life on exoplanets will be a priority in the next decades. Two direct imaging space mission concepts are being develop…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 10 cited

Use the 4S (Signal-Safe Speckle Subtraction): Explainable Machine Learning reveals the Giant Exoplanet AF Lep b in High-Contrast Imaging Data from 2011

Markus J. Bonse, Timothy D. Gebhard, Felix A. Dannert +10

The main challenge of exoplanet high-contrast imaging (HCI) is to separate the signal of exoplanets from their host stars, which are many orders of magnitude brighter. HCI for grou…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 11 cited

Machine Learning for Exoplanet Detection in High-Contrast Spectroscopy: Revealing Exoplanets by Leveraging Hidden Molecular Signatures in Cross-Correlated Spectra with Convolutional Neural Networks

Emily O. Garvin, Markus J. Bonse, Jean Hayoz +8

The new generation of observatories and instruments (VLT/ERIS, JWST, ELT) motivate the development of robust methods to detect and characterise faint and close-in exoplanets. Molec…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Machine learning for exoplanet detection in high-contrast spectroscopy Combining cross correlation maps and deep learning on medium-resolution integral-field spectra

Rakesh Nath-Ranga, Olivier Absil, Valentin Christiaens +1

The advent of high-contrast imaging instruments combined with medium-resolution spectrographs allows spectral and temporal dimensions to be combined with spatial dimensions to dete…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 7 cited

CROCODILE \\ Incorporating medium-resolution spectroscopy of close-in directly imaged exoplanets into atmospheric retrievals via cross-correlation

Jean Hayoz, Gabriele Cugno, Sascha P. Quanz +8

The investigation of the atmospheres of closely separated, directly imaged gas giant exoplanets is challenging due to the presence of stellar speckles that pollute their spectrum.…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 20 cited

Comparing Apples with Apples: Robust Detection Limits for Exoplanet High-Contrast Imaging in the Presence of non-Gaussian Noise

Markus J. Bonse, Emily O. Garvin, Timothy D. Gebhard +8

Over the past decade, hundreds of nights have been spent on the worlds largest telescopes to search for and directly detect new exoplanets using high-contrast imaging (HCI). Thereb…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 32 cited

Hubble Asteroid Hunter: II. Identifying strong gravitational lenses in HST images with crowdsourcing

Emily O. Garvin, Sandor Kruk, Claude Cornen +3

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archives constitute a rich dataset of high resolution images to mine for strong gravitational lenses. While many HST programs specifically target s…