8 papers
Gemini and Apache Point Multi-band Optical Imaging Characterization of Fragmenting Long-period Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)
Carl Ingebretsen, Bryce T. Bolin, Meredith A. MacGregor +8
We present results from multi-band g, r, and i, observations of C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) taken with the Gemini North 8.1-m/GMOS imager on 2025 December 6 and December 24, and u, g, r, i,…
Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: The Impact of Flare Temperature on Ozone Column Depth in Earth-Like Atmospheres
Jaime S. Crouse, Nicholas F. Wogan, Ward S. Howard +4
Atmospheric photochemical models incorporating the impacts of stellar flares often assume a 9,000 K spectrum at ultraviolet-optical wavelengths. Recent multiwavelength observ…
Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: Photometric Diagnostics of Magnetospheric Accretion Geometry in Young Stellar Objects
Laura Venuti, Connor E. Robinson, Ann Marie Cody +13
The inner disk truncation radius, , plays a crucial role in the regulation of star-disk interaction and the early evolution of star-disk-planet systems; however, measuring thi…
Exoplanet System Architecture: Sculpting the Inner Regions
Mark R. Swain, Geoffrey Bryden, Jonathan C. Tan +14
In this study, we seek to improve our understanding of the competing roles of disk-driven and planet-planet dynamical migration in sculpting planetary system architecture in the in…
Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…
Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: Detecting the Primordial, Transiting Exoplanet Population
George Zhou, James G. Rogers, Jennifer A. Burt +17
The close-in small planet population may be formed either with hydrogen/helium dominated envelopes or with water-rich interiors. Both scenarios reproduce the present day planet pop…
Debris disks and their properties with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Isabel Rebollido, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Meredith MacGregor +5
The study of the last stages of planet formation, also known as debris disks, is fundamental to place constrains on the formation of planetary sized bodies. Debris disks are compos…
Water vapor as a probe of the origin of gas in debris disks
Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Riouhei Nakatani, Isabel Rebollido +5
Debris disks embrace the formation and evolution histories of planetary systems. Recent detections of gas in these disks have received considerable attention, as its origin ties up…