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20242026
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25 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: early calibration plan and pilot observation of a companion

Julien H. Girard, Eric Cady, Neil T. Zimmerman +42

Roman is set to launch in weeks! The Coronagraph Instrument - technology pathfinder for future direct imaging missions - is ready to fly too. According to predictions, laboratory t…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: trials and triumphs of designing an observing program for a technology demonstration instrument

Schuyler G. Wolff, Vanessa P. Bailey, Justin Hom +19

The Coronagraph Instrument onboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope serves as a crucial technology pathfinder for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, with on-sky verification of…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: pre-launch reference star list and impact of reference star properties on post-processing performance

Justin Hom, Schuyler G. Wolff, Jessica Gersh-Range +51

The upcoming Roman Coronagraph will be the first high-contrast instrument in space capable of high-order wavefront sensing and control technologies, a critical technology demonstra…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.SR2026

Revealing α-Element's Past with Subaru/IRD: Oxygen Abundance of 35 Very Metal-Poor Stars from Near-IR OH lines

Bakuh Danang Setyo Budi, Wako Aoki, Nicholas Storm +10

Oxygen abundances in very and extremely metal-poor (V/EMP) stars provide critical constraints on early massive stars' nucleosynthesis. An Oxygen abundance analysis is presented for…

astro-ph.IM2026

Japan's Possible Contributions for Coronagraph of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)

Keigo Enya, Kenta Yoneta, Naoshi Murakami +20

In this paper, we describe Japan's possible contributions for coronagraph of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) based on our independent study. We are considering to contribute…