8 papers
Direct spectroscopic confirmation of the young embedded proto-planet WISPIT 2c
Chloe Lawlor, Richelle F. van Capelleveen, Guillaume Bourdarot +18
WISPIT 2 is a nearby young star with a multi-ringed disk which was recently confirmed to host a ~4.9 MJup gas giant planet embedded in a large (60 au) gap at a radial separation of…
Worlds Next Door. III. Indirect Evidence for Enhanced Atmospheric Metallicity and/or the Presence of Water Clouds in the Nearest Jupiter-analog Eri b
Aniket Sanghi, James Mang, Jorge Llop-Sayson +12
We present the most sensitive direct imaging search for the nearest ( pc) Jupiter-analog exoplanet, Eri b, with JWST/NIRCam coronagraphy between 4-5 m (F444W). We…
A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in the Galaxy
John H. Livingston, Erik A. Petigura, Trevor J. David +39
The Galaxy's most common known planetary systems have several Earth-to-Neptune-size planets in compact orbits. At small orbital separations, larger planets are less common than the…
The Solirad (So) as a Convenient Unit for Quoting Astronomical Irradiances for Planetary Insolations and Exoplanetary Instellations
Eric E. Mamajek, Jason T. Wright, Noah W. Tuchow +3
Measurements of physical parameters for stars and (exo)planets are often quoted in units normalized to the Sun and/or Earth. The nominal total solar irradiance, ${S}^{\rm N}_{\odot…
YSES 2b is a background star: Differential astrometric M-dwarf measurements in time
Matthew Kenworthy, Tomas Stolker, Jens Kammerer +13
We wish to confirm the nature of YSES 2b, a purportedly faint companion of the young star YSES 2. We used on-sky observations from SPHERE and GRAVITY to measure the astrometric pos…
WIde Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): A Gap-clearing Planet in a Multi-ringed Disk around the Young Solar-type Star WISPIT 2
Richelle F. van Capelleveen, Christian Ginski, Matthew A. Kenworthy +17
In the past decades several thousand exoplanet systems have been discovered around evolved, main-sequence stars, revealing a wide diversity in their architectures. To understand ho…