6 papers
Searching for Habitable Exoplanets with Relative Astrometry (SHERA). I. The Case for Searching for Planets in Binary Star Systems
Jessie L. Christiansen, Eric E. Mamajek, Gautam Vasisht +14
Discovering Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars was identified as a priority science goal of the Astronomy 2020 Decadal Survey. It is confounded by many factors, one of whic…
Calibration of an Analog-to-Digital Conversion Nonlinearity in JWST/NIRISS
Shashank Dholakia, Shishir Dholakia, Benjamin J. S. Pope +4
We quantify an unusual flux-dependent systematic which is periodic in raw counts in flight data from the James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph…
Differentiable Optics with dLux II: Optical Design Maximising Fisher Information
Louis Desdoigts, Benjamin Pope, Michael Gully-Santiago +1
The design of astronomical hardware operating at the diffraction limit requires optimisation of physical optical simulations of the instrument with respect to desired figures of me…
Halo Photometry and Asteroseismology for 98 of the Brightest Stars Observed by TESS
Jonatan Rudrasingam, Timothy R. Bedding, Benjamin J. S. Pope +4
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has facilitated studies of asteroseismology, eclipsing binaries, and transits in many stars. However, the brightest stars s…
JWST 1.5 μm and 4.8 μm Photometry of Y Dwarfs
Loïc Albert, Sandy K. Leggett, Per Calissendorff +20
Brown dwarfs lack nuclear fusion and cool with time; the coldest known have an effective temperature below 500 K, and are known as Y dwarfs. We present a James Webb Space Telescope…
The James Webb Interferometer: Space-based interferometric detections of PDS 70 b and c at 4.8 m
Dori Blakely, Doug Johnstone, Gabriele Cugno +22
We observed the planet-hosting system PDS 70 with the James Webb Interferometer, JWST's Aperture Masking Interferometric (AMI) mode within NIRISS. Observing with the F480M filter c…