5 papers
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems VIII: patchy forsterite and enstatite clouds in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b, retrieval lessons learned and outlook to the future
Niall Whiteford, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Ben Burningham +123
JWST defines a new era for the data-driven approach of retrieval modelling, which has become a cornerstone tool for the statistical inference of exoplanetary and brown dwarf proper…
The JWST weather report: Unravelling the atmospheric variability of isolated worlds using principal component analysis
Merle A. Schrader, Johanna M. Vos, Evert Nasedkin +17
The paper uses principal component analysis on JWST/NIRSpec time‑series spectra of the brown dwarf SIMP‑0136 to identify two dominant patterns of variability, linking them to tempe…
A Comprehensive Atmospheric Retrieval Analysis of 22 James Webb Space Telescope Spectral Energy Distributions of Cool Brown Dwarfs
Harshil Kothari, Michael C. Cushing, Samuel A. Beiler +5
We present a uniform atmospheric retrieval analysis of 22 late-T and Y-type brown dwarfs within 20 pc, observed with the James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec PRISM and MIRI LRS. This…
Tempawral: A Time-Resolved Retrieval Framework for Variable Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
Fei Wang, Ben Burningham, Stuart Littlefair +4
Brown dwarfs and exoplanets are thought to host complex atmospheric phenomena such as clouds, storms, and chemical heterogeneity, akin to weather patterns on Earth. These features…
On the use of polarized thermal emission to constrain cloud grain size and temperature structure of sub-stellar objects
Fei Wang, Yuka Fujii, Ben Burningham +1
Emission spectroscopy is an invaluable tool for probing the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and exoplanets, but interpretations based on flux spectra alone often suffer from degeneraci…