6 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…
Photometric Variability and Rotation of Beta Pictoris b from JWST NIRCam Coronagraphic Imaging
Yifan Zhou, Beth A. Biller, Aarynn L. Carter +30
We report the detection of photometric variability in the directly imaged super-Jupiter Pictoris b. Using JWST NIRCam dual-band coronagraphic imaging, we conducted a 16-hour c…
Early evidence for isotropic planetary obliquities in young super-Jupiter systems
Michael Poon, Marta L. Bryan, Hanno Rein +3
This decade has seen the first measurements of extrasolar planetary obliquities, characterizing how an exoplanet's spin axis is oriented relative to its orbital axis. These measure…
Evidence for Variable Accretion onto PDS 70 c and Implications for Protoplanet Detections
Yifan Zhou, Brendan P. Bowler, Aniket Sanghi +14
Understanding the processes of planet formation and accretion in young systems is essential to unraveling the initial conditions of planetary systems. The PDS 70 system, which host…
Resolving the Super-Earth/Gas Giant Connection in Stellar Mass and Metallicity
Marta L. Bryan, Eve J. Lee
The observed correlation between inner super-Earths and outer gas giants places strong constraints on formation theories. Building on previous work, Bryan Lee 2024 showed that…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems III: Aperture Masking Interferometric Observations of the star HIP 65426 at 3.8 um
Shrishmoy Ray, Steph Sallum, Sasha Hinkley +121
We present aperture masking interferometry (AMI) observations of the star HIP 65426 at as a part of the JWST Direct Imaging Early Release Science (ERS) program obta…