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20242026
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16 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: Observation planning and data reduction for polarimetric mode

Ramya M Anche, Toshiyuki Mizuki, Justin Hom +25

Reflected-light polarimetry of exoplanets constrains and resolves degeneracies in atmospheric properties, while polarized light observations of debris disks enable the characteriza…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: data reduction pipeline design and implementation

Jason J. Wang, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Marie Ygouf +39

The Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will demonstrate a series of technologies and techniques to enable the direct detection of reflected-light planets with space-based…

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.EP2026

The compositions of the HR 8799 planets reflect accretion of both solids and metal-enriched gas

Jerry W. Xuan, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Yayaati Chachan +24

With four giant planets (, $T_\rm{eff}\sim900-1200$ K) orbiting between 15-70 au, HR 8799 provides an unparalleled testbed for studying giant planet formatio…

physics.gen-ph2026

Photometric and Astrometric Information for Sources around HD~163296 Revealed by JWST/NIRCam Coronagraphy

Taichi Uyama, Luca Ricci, Marie Ygouf +1

Background stars observed through a circumstellar disk provide valuable benchmarks for investigating the disk's extinction properties. The HD~163296 system is an excellent case stu…