7 papers
Exploring Exoplanets with Interferometry
Sascha P. Quanz, Bertrand Mennesson, Charles Beichman +27
(Extract from the Executive Summary) Humanity stands at the threshold of answering one of its most profound questions: Does life exist beyond Earth? Ongoing and upcoming space miss…
Dimpled scalar vortex coronagraph laboratory demonstration
Niyati Desai, Garreth Ruane, Susan Redmond +3
Achieving the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) goal of 10^-10 contrast at a separation of 3 /D across a 20% bandwidth requires coronagraph focal plane masks with both broadba…
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.…
Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits
Charles Beichman, Aniket Sanghi, Dimitri Mawet +27
We report on coronagraphic observations of the nearest solar-type star, Cen A, using the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. With three epochs of observation (A…
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…
Technical description and performance of the phase II version of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
Nemanja Jovanovic, Daniel Echeverri, Jacques-Robert Delorme +46
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a series of upgrades for the Keck II Adaptive Optics (AO) system and the NIRSPEC spectrograph to enable diffraction limited, high…