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The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems IV: NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry Performance and Lessons Learned
Steph Sallum, Shrishmoy Ray, Jens Kammerer +120
We present a performance analysis for the aperture masking interferometry (AMI) mode on board the James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST/NI…
Impacts of high-contrast image processing on atmospheric retrievals
Evert Nasedkin, Paul Mollière, Jason Wang +5
Many post-processing algorithms have been developed in order to better separate the signal of a companion from the bright light of the host star, but the effect of such algorithms…
Retrieval study of cool, directly imaged exoplanet 51 Eri b
Niall Whiteford, Alistair Glasse, Katy L. Chubb +12
Retrieval methods are a powerful analysis technique for modelling exoplanetary atmospheres by estimating the bulk physical and chemical properties that combine in a forward model t…
Testing the Interaction Between a Substellar Companion and a Debris Disk in the HR 2562 System
Stella Yimiao Zhang, Gaspard Duchêne, Robert J. De Rosa +51
The HR 2562 system is a rare case where a brown dwarf companion resides in a cleared inner hole of a debris disk, offering invaluable opportunities to study the dynamical interacti…
The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS): Optimization Techniques for Robust Detections of Protoplanets
Jéa I. Adams Redai, Katherine B. Follette, Jason Wang +11
High-contrast imaging has afforded astronomers the opportunity to study light directly emitted by adolescent (tens of Myr) and ``proto" (10Myr) planets still undergoing formatio…
The Impact of Bayesian Hyperpriors on the Population-Level Eccentricity Distribution of Imaged Planets
Vighnesh Nagpal, Sarah Blunt, Brendan P. Bowler +3
Orbital eccentricities directly trace the formation mechanisms and dynamical histories of substellar companions. Here, we study the effect of hyperpriors on the population-level ec…
Deep orbital search for additional planets in the HR 8799 system
William Thompson, Christian Marois, Clarissa R. Do Ó +6
The HR 8799 system hosts four massive planets orbiting 15 and 80 AU. Studies of the system's orbital stability and its outer debris disk open the possibility of additional planets,…
Phase II of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: system-level laboratory characterization and preliminary on-sky commissioning
Daniel Echeverri, Nemanja Jovanovic, Jacques-Robert Delorme +35
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a series of upgrades for the Keck II Adaptive Optics (AO) system and the NIRSPEC spectrograph to enable diffraction-limited, high…
Broadband vortex fiber nulling: high-dispersion exoplanet science at the diffraction limit
Daniel Echeverri, Garreth Ruane, Nemanja Jovanovic +6
As the number of confirmed exoplanets continues to grow, there is an increased push to spectrally characterize them to determine their atmospheric composition, formation paths, rot…
Retrieving C and O Abundance of HR 8799 c by Combining High- and Low-Resolution Data
Ji Wang, Jason J. Wang, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio +29
The formation and evolution pathway for the directly-imaged multi-planetary system HR 8799 remains mysterious. Accurate constraints on the chemical composition of the planetary atm…
Performance of near-infrared high-contrast imaging methods with JWST from commissioning
Jens Kammerer, Julien Girard, Aarynn L. Carter +12
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will revolutionize the field of high-contrast imaging and enable both the direct detection of Saturn-mass planets and the characterization of…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 Micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b
Brittany E. Miles, Beth A. Biller, Polychronis Patapis +101
We present the highest fidelity spectrum to date of a planetary-mass object. VHS 1256 b is a 20 M widely separated (8\arcsec, a = 150 au), young, planetary-…
Atmospheric Monitoring and Precise Spectroscopy of the HR 8799 Planets with SCExAO/CHARIS
Jason J. Wang, Peter Gao, Jeffrey Chilcote +10
The atmospheres of gas giant planets are thought to be inhomogeneous due to weather and patchy clouds. We present two full nights of coronagraphic observations of the HR 8799 plane…
A Clear View of a Cloudy Brown Dwarf Companion from High-Resolution Spectroscopy
Jerry W. Xuan, Jason Wang, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio +37
Direct imaging studies have mainly used low-resolution spectroscopy () to study the atmospheres of giant exoplanets and brown dwarf companions, but the presence of clo…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems I: High Contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2-16 m
Aarynn L. Carter, Sasha Hinkley, Jens Kammerer +108
We present JWST Early Release Science (ERS) coronagraphic observations of the super-Jupiter exoplanet, HIP 65426 b, with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) from 2-5 m, and with t…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for the Direct Imaging & Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Systems
Sasha Hinkley, Aarynn L. Carter, Shrishmoy Ray +83
The direct characterization of exoplanetary systems with high contrast imaging is among the highest priorities for the broader exoplanet community. As large space missions will be…
N-body Interactions will be Detectable in the HR-8799 System within 5 years with VLTI-GRAVITY
Sofia Covarrubias, Sarah Blunt, Jason J. Wang
While Keplerian orbits account for the majority of the astrometric motion of directly-imaged planets, perturbations due to N-body interactions allow us to directly constrain exopla…
Retrieving the C and O Abundances of HR 7672~AB: a Solar-Type Primary Star with a Benchmark Brown Dwarf
Ji Wang, Jared R. Kolecki, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio +30
A benchmark brown dwarf (BD) is a BD whose properties (e.g., mass and chemical composition) are precisely and independently measured. Benchmark BDs are valuable in testing theoreti…
Deep exploration of the planets HR 8799 b, c, and d with moderate resolution spectroscopy
Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Quinn M. Konopacky, Travis Barman +6
The four directly imaged planets orbiting the star HR 8799 are an ideal laboratory to probe atmospheric physics and formation models. We present more than a decade's worth of Keck/…
Keck/OSIRIS Pa high-contrast imaging and updated constraints on PDS~70b
Taichi Uyama, Chen Xie, Yuhiko Aoyama +11
We present a high-contrast imaging search for Pa line emission from protoplanets in the PDS~70 system with Keck/OSIRIS integral field spectroscopy. We applied the high-resolutio…
Constraining the Orbit and Mass of epsilon Eridani b with Radial Velocities, Hipparcos IAD-Gaia DR2 Astrometry, and Multi-epoch Vortex Coronagraphy Upper Limits
Jorge Llop-Sayson, Jason J. Wang, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio +30
~Eridani is a young planetary system hosting a complex multi-belt debris disk and a confirmed Jupiter-like planet orbiting at 3.48 AU from its host star. Its age and architectur…
Biases in orbit fitting of directly-imaged exoplanets with small orbital coverage
Rodrigo Ferrer-Chávez, Jason J. Wang, Sarah Blunt
The eccentricity of a planet's orbit and the inclination of its orbital plane encode important information about its formation and history. However, exoplanets detected via direct-…
The ExoGRAVITY project: using single mode interferometry to characterize exoplanets
S. Lacour, J. J. Wang, M. Nowak +89
Combining adaptive optics and interferometric observations results in a considerable contrast gain compared to single-telescope, extreme AO systems. Taking advantage of this, the E…
Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the Dusty Substellar Companion HD 206893 B
K. Ward-Duong, J. Patience, K. Follette +55
We present new near-infrared Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) spectroscopy of HD 206893 B, a substellar companion orbiting within the debris disk of its F5V star. The , , , and…