12 papers
Enhancing the performance and capabilities of the MIRI instrument on JWST
S. Kendrew, M. Engesser, K. Rowlands +23
MIRI, the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope, is the only instrument sensitive to wavelengths longward of 5 um on the observatory. In this regime, MIRI bring…
A Detailed Analysis of Intermediate-scale Structure in Optical Extinction Curves: Expanded Census and Two-family Classification
C. M. Gunasekera, M. Decleir, K. D. Gordon +4
The features of interstellar extinction curves serve as powerful diagnostics for interstellar dust, revealing information about its composition, size distribution, and the physical…
Stellar winds of O-type stars traced by high ionization fine-structure emission lines with JWST/MIRI
Calum Hawcroft, David R. Law, Linda J. Smith +8
We investigate the presence of high ionization fine-structure emission lines across a range of 22 OB-type stars observed with JWST-MIRI as part of calibration programmes and the WI…
Summary of Discussion Sessions from "The Dusty Universe 2025: The Fifth Pandust Conference"
Marjorie Decleir, Karl D. Gordon, Annalisa De Cia +16
"The Dusty Universe: The Fifth Pandust Conference" took place in Tucson (AZ, USA) from November 10 until 14, 2025. The goal of this meeting was to get the dust community together t…
Large Variations Seen in First Ultraviolet Spectroscopic M33 Dust Extinction Curves
Karl D. Gordon, Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones, Geoffrey C. Clayton +4
Dust extinction curves provide one of the main avenues to understanding the detailed nature of dust grains and accounting for the effects of dust on observations of many astrophysi…
A Tale of Two Sightlines: Comparison of Hydrocarbon Dust Absorption Bands toward Cygnus OB2-12 and the Galactic Center
Yvonne J. Pendleton, T. R. Geballe, Laurie E. U. Chu +14
Infrared spectra of hydrocarbon dust absorption bands toward the bright hypergiant Cygnus OB2-12 are compared to published spectra of the Quintuplet Cluster, a sightline to the Gal…