24 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…
SMDET-1: a Nearby Y Dwarf Candidate
The Backyard Worlds, :, Planet 9 Collaboration +15
We present the discovery of SMDET-1, a red, fast-moving object ("/yr) identified in time-resolved unWISE coadds using a pixel-level deep learning methodology called S…
Silicate Clouds, SiO, and Molecular Trends across the L-T Sequence: A JWST/MIRI LRS Spectral Library of Brown Dwarfs
Sam Barber, Stanimir Metchev, Genaro Suárez +12
We present the results of a survey program with JWST's MIRI LRS that obtained 514 m R~100 spectra of twenty-three L0T6 dwarfs. This spectral type range spans the formation…
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…
Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek
Ben J. Sutlieff, Markus J. Bonse, Valentin Christiaens +94
The paper reports the direct imaging discovery of a third giant exoplanet, β Pictoris d, using VLT/ERIS and archival JWST/NIRCam and VLT/SPHERE data, and characterizes its orbit, t…
Inspecting Cloudy Substellar Atmospheres with JWST MIRI Synthetic Magnitudes from Spitzer Mid-infrared Spectra
Jolie LHeureux, Genaro Suárez, Johanna M. Vos +4
We examine the positions of substellar objects in mid-infrared color-magnitude and color-color diagrams to distinguish between cloudy and cloud-free atmospheres. Using Spitzer mid-…