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2. The JWST/NIRISS Deep Spectroscopic Survey for Young Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets
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Langeveld, Adam B., Scholz, Aleks, Mužić, Koraljka, Jayawardhana, Ray, Capela, Daniel, Albert, Loïc, Doyon, René, Flagg, Laura, de Furio, Matthew, Johnstone, Doug, Lafrèniere, David, and Meyer, Michael
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
The discovery and characterization of free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPMOs) is fundamental to our understanding of star and planet formation. Here we report results from an extremely deep spectroscopic survey of the young star cluster NGC1333 using NIRISS WFSS on the James Webb Space Telescope. The survey is photometrically complete to K~21, and includes useful spectra for objects as faint as K~20.5. The observations cover 19 known brown dwarfs, for most of which we confirm spectral types using NIRISS spectra. We discover six new candidates with L-dwarf spectral types that are plausible planetary-mass members of NGC1333, with estimated masses between 5-15 MJup. One, at ~5 MJup, shows clear infrared excess emission and is a good candidate to be the lowest mass object known to have a disk. We do not find any objects later than mid-L spectral type (M < ~4 MJup). The paucity of Jupiter-mass objects, despite the survey's unprecedented sensitivity, suggests that our observations reach the lowest mass objects formed like stars in NGC1333. Our findings put the fraction of FFPMOs in NGC1333 at ~10% of the number of cluster members, significantly more than expected from the typical log-normal stellar mass function. We also search for wide binaries in our images and report a young brown dwarf with a planetary-mass companion., Comment: Accepted for publication in AJ. 26 pages, 15 figures
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- 2024
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3. Investing in the Unrivaled Potential of Wide-Separation Sub-Jupiter Exoplanet Detection and Characterisation with JWST -- Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST White Paper
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Carter, Aarynn L., Bowens-Rubin, Rachel, Calissendorff, Per, Kammerer, Jens, Li, Yiting, Meyer, Michael R., Booth, Mark, Factor, Samuel M., Franson, Kyle, Gaidos, Eric, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lew, Ben W. P., Martinez, Raquel A., Rebollido, Isabel, Rickman, Emily, Sutlieff, Ben J., Ward-Duong, Kimberly, and Zhang, Zhoujian
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
We advocate for a large scale imaging survey of nearby young moving groups and star-forming regions to directly detect exoplanets over an unexplored range of masses, ages and orbits. Discovered objects will be identified early enough in JWST's lifetime to leverage its unparalleled capabilities for long-term atmospheric characterisation, and will uniquely complement the known population of exoplanets and brown dwarfs. Furthermore, this survey will constrain the occurrence of the novel wide sub-Jovian exoplanet population, informing multiple theories of planetary formation and evolution. Observations with NIRCam F200W+F444W dual-band coronagraphy will readily provide sub-Jupiter mass sensitivities beyond ~0.4" (F444W) and can also be used to rule out some contaminating background sources (F200W). At this large scale, targets can be sequenced by spectral type to enable robust self-referencing for PSF subtraction. This eliminates the need for dedicated reference observations required by GO programs and dramatically increases the overall science observing efficiency. With an exposure of ~30 minutes per target, the sub-Jupiter regime can be explored across 250 targets for ~400 hours of exposure time including overheads. An additional, pre-allocated, ~100 hours of observing time would enable rapid multi-epoch vetting of the lowest mass detections (which are undetectable in F200W). The total time required for a survey such as this is not fixed, and could be scaled in conjunction with the minimum number of detected exoplanet companions., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. This white paper was submitted following a call from the "Working Group on Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST" (https://sites.google.com/view/exoplanet-strategy-wg, final report in 10.48550/arXiv.2404.02932)
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- 2024
4. STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry
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Monnier, John D., Jain, Prachet, Kalluri, Shashank, Cutler, James, D'Amico, Simone, Lightsey, Glenn, Pogorelyuk, Leonid, Vasisht, Gautam, Cahoy, Kerri, and Meyer, Michael
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
We present the concept for STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry. If launched, STARI will be the first mission to control a 3-D CubeSat formation to the few mm-level, reflect starlight over 10s to 100s of meters from one spacecraft to another, control tip-tilt with sub-arcsecond stability, and validate end-to-end performance by injecting light into a single-mode fiber. While STARI is not an interferometer, the mission will advance the Technology Readiness Levels of the essential subsystems needed for a space interferometer in the near future., Comment: submitted to SPIE 2024 (Yokohama)
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- 2024
5. Capturing Nonlinear Electron Dynamics with Fully Characterised Attosecond X-ray Pulses
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Funke, Lars, Ilchen, Markus, Dingel, Kristina, Mazza, Tommaso, Mullins, Terence, Otto, Thorsten, Rivas, Daniel, Savio, Sara, Serkez, Svitozar, Walter, Peter, Wieland, Niclas, Wülfing, Lasse, Bari, Sadia, Boll, Rebecca, Braune, Markus, Calegari, Francesca, De Fanis, Alberto, Decking, Winfried, Duensing, Andreas, Düsterer, Stefan, Ehresmann, Arno, Erk, Benjamin, de Lima, Danilo Enoque Ferreira, Galler, Andreas, Geloni, Gianluca, Grünert, Jan, Guetg, Marc, Grychtol, Patrik, Hans, Andreas, Held, Arne, Hindriksson, Ruda, Inhester, Ludger, Jahnke, Till, Laksman, Joakim, Larsson, Mats, Liu, Jia, Marangos, Jon P., Marder, Lutz, Meier, David, Meyer, Michael, Mirian, Najmeh, Ott, Christian, Passow, Christopher, Pfeifer, Thomas, Rupprecht, Patrick, Schletter, Albert, Schmidt, Philipp, Scholz, Frank, Schott, Simon, Schneidmiller, Evgeny, Sick, Bernhard, Son, Sang-Kil, Tiedtke, Kai, Usenko, Sergey, Wanie, Vincent, Wurzer, Markus, Yurkov, Mikhail, Zhaunerchyk, Vitali, and Helml, Wolfram
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Physics - Optics ,Physics - Atomic Physics - Abstract
Attosecond X-ray pulses are the key to studying electron dynamics at their natural time scale involving specific electronic states. They are promising to build the conceptual bridge between physical and chemical photo-reaction processes. Free-electron lasers have demonstrated their capability of generating intense attosecond X-ray pulses. However, harnessing them for time-resolving experiments and investigations of nonlinear X-ray absorption mechanisms remains a cutting-edge challenge. We have characterised X-ray pulses with durations of down to 700$\,$attoseconds and peak powers up to 200$\,$GW at $\sim$ 1$\,$keV photon energy via angular streaking at the SQS instrument of the European XFEL. As direct application, we present results of nonlinear X-ray-matter interaction via state-specific spectroscopy on a transient system. Using the derived spectral and temporal information of each pulse, we deliberately steer the probability for formation of double-core vacancies in neon gas atoms through excitation or ionisation of the second inner-shell electron after K-shell ionisation. Our results advance the field of attosecond science with highly intense and fully characterised X-ray pulses to the site-specific investigation of electronic motion in transient media.
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- 2024
6. Circular Dichroism in Multiphoton Ionization of Resonantly Excited Helium Ions near Channel Closing
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Wagner, Rene, Ilchen, Markus, Douguet, Nicolas, Schmidt, Philipp, Wieland, Niclas, Callegari, Carlo, Delk, Zachary, Demidovich, Alexander, Di Fraia, Michele, Hofbrucker, Jiri, Manfredda, Michele, Music, Valerija, Plekan, Oksana, Prince, Kevin C., Rivas, Daniel E., Zangrando, Marco, Grum-Grzhimailo, Alexei N., Bartschat, Klaus, and Meyer, Michael
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Physics - Atomic Physics ,Quantum Physics - Abstract
The circular dichroism (CD) of photoelectrons generated by near-infrared (NIR) laser pulses using multiphoton ionization of excited He$^+$ ions in the 3p(m=+1) state. The ions were prepared by circularly polarized extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses. For circularly polarized NIR pulses co- and counter-rotating relative to the polarization of the XUV pulse, a complex variation of the CD is observed as a result of intensity- and polarization-dependent Freeman resonances, with and without additional dichroic AC-Stark shifts. The experimental results are compared with numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation to identify and interpret the pronounced variation of the experimentally observed CD., Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures
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- 2024
7. Transmission spectroscopy of CF$_4$ molecules in intense x-ray fields
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Jin, Rui, Fouda, Adam, Magunia, Alexander, Nam, Yeonsig, Rebholz, Marc, De Fanis, Alberto, Li, Kai, Doumy, Gilles, Baumann, Thomas M., Straub, Michael, Usenko, Sergey, Ovcharenko, Yevheniy, Mazza, Tommaso, Montaño, Jacobo, Agåker, Marcus, Piancastelli, Maria Novella, Simon, Marc, Rubensson, Jan-Erik, Meyer, Michael, Young, Linda, Ott, Christian, and Pfeifer, Thomas
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Physics - Atomic Physics ,Physics - Chemical Physics ,Physics - Optics - Abstract
The nonlinear interaction of x-rays with matter is at the heart of understanding and controlling ultrafast molecular dynamics from an atom-specific viewpoint, providing new scientific and analytical opportunities to explore the structure and dynamics of small quantum systems. At increasingly high x-ray intensity, the sensitivity of ultrashort x-ray pulses to specific electronic states and emerging short-lived transient intermediates is of particular relevance for our understanding of fundamental multi-photon absorption processes. In this work, intense x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) pulses at the European XFEL (EuXFEL) are combined with a gas cell and grating spectrometer for a high-intensity transmission spectroscopy study of multiphoton-induced ultrafast molecular fragmentation dynamics in CF$_4$. This approach unlocks the direct intra-pulse observation of transient fragments, including neutral atoms, by their characteristic absorption lines in the transmitted broad-band x-ray spectrum. The dynamics with and without initially producing fluorine K-shell holes are studied by tuning the central photon energy. The absorption spectra are measured at different FEL intensities to observe nonlinear effects. Transient isolated fluorine atoms and ions are spectroscopically recorded within the ultrashort pulse duration of few tens of femtoseconds. An isosbestic point that signifies the correlated transition between intact neutral CF$_4$ molecules and charged atomic fragments is observed near the fluorine K-edge. The dissociation dynamics and the multiphoton absorption-induced dynamics encoded in the spectra are theoretically interpreted. Overall, this study demonstrates the potential of high-intensity x-ray transmission spectroscopy to study ultrafast molecular dynamics with sensitivity to specific intermediate species and their electronic structure., Comment: 30 pages, with 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. X
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- 2024
8. Good for the Jews, Bad for Judaism: Jewish Berlin in the Modern Period
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Meyer, Michael A.
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9. Characterization of a Longwave HgCdTe GeoSnap Detector
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Bowens, Rory, Meyer, Michael R., Tobin, Taylor L., Viges, Eric, Hart, Dennis, Monnier, John, Leisenring, Jarron, Ives, Derek, and van Boekel, Roy
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
New longwave HgCdTe detectors are critical to upcoming plans for ground-based infrared astronomy. These detectors, with fast-readouts and deep well-depths, will be key components of extremely large telescope instruments and therefore must be well understood prior to deployment. We analyze one such HgCdTe detector, a Teledyne Imaging Sensors GeoSnap, at the University of Michigan. We find that the properties of the GeoSnap are consistent with expectations from analysis of past devices. The GeoSnap has a well-depth of 2.75 million electrons per pixel, a read noise of 360 e-/pix, and a dark current of 330,000 e-/s/pix at 45 K. The device experiences 1/f noise which can be mitigated relative to half-well shot noise with modest frequency image differencing. The GeoSnap's quantum efficiency is calculated to be 79.7 +- 8.3 % at 10.6 microns. Although the GeoSnap's bad pixel fraction, on the order of 3%, is consistent with other GeoSnap devices, close to a third of the bad pixels in this detector are clustered in a series of 31 "leopard" spots spread across the detector plane. We report these properties and identify additional analyses that will be performed on future GeoSnap detectors., Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024
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- 2024
10. X-ray Coulomb explosion imaging reveals role of molecular structure in internal conversion
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Jahnke, Till, Mai, Sebastian, Bhattacharyya, Surjendu, Chen, Keyu, Boll, Rebecca, Castellani, Maria Elena, Dold, Simon, Duley, Avijit, Frühling, Ulrike, Green, Alice E., Ilchen, Markus, Ingle, Rebecca, Kastirke, Gregor, Lam, Huynh Van Sa, Lever, Fabiano, Mayer, Dennis, Mazza, Tommaso, Mullins, Terence, Ovcharenko, Yevheniy, Senfftleben, Björn, Trinter, Florian, Noor, Atia Tul, Usenko, Sergey, Venkatachalam, Anbu Selvam, Rudenko, Artem, Rolles, Daniel, Meyer, Michael, Ibrahim, Heide, and Gühr, Markus
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Physics - Chemical Physics ,Physics - Atomic Physics - Abstract
Molecular photoabsorption results in an electronic excitation/ionization which couples to the rearrangement of the nuclei. The resulting intertwined change of nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom determines the conversion of photoenergy into other molecular energy forms. Nucleobases are excellent candidates for studying such dynamics, and great effort has been taken in the past to observe the electronic changes induced by the initial excitation in a time-resolved manner using ultrafast electron spectroscopy. The linked geometrical changes during nucleobase photorelaxation have so far not been observed directly in time-resolved experiments. Here, we present a study on a thionucleobase, where we extract comprehensive information on the molecular rearrangement using Coulomb explosion imaging. Our measurement links the extracted deplanarization of the molecular geometry to the previously studied temporal evolution of the electronic properties of the system. In particular, the protons of the exploded molecule are well-suited messengers carrying rich information on the molecule's geometry at distinct times after the initial electronic excitation. The combination of ultrashort laser pulses to trigger molecular dynamics, intense X-ray free-electron laser pulses for the explosion of the molecule, and multi-particle coincidence detection opens new avenues for time-resolved studies of complex molecules in the gas phase., Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures
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- 2024
11. Controlled molecule injector for cold, dense, and pure molecular beams at the European x-ray free-electron laser
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He, Lanhai, Johny, Melby, Kierspel, Thomas, Długołęcki, Karol, Bari, Sadia, Boll, Rebecca, Bromberger, Hubertus, Coreno, Marcello, De Fanis, Alberto, Di Fraia, Michele, Erk, Benjamin, Gisselbrecht, Mathieu, Grychtol, Patrik, Eng-Johnsson, Per, Mazza, Tommaso, Onvlee, Jolijn, Ovcharenko, Yevheniy, Petrovic, Jovana, Rennhack, Nils, Rivas, Daniel E., Rudenko, Artem, Rühl, Eckart, Schwob, Lucas, Simon, Marc, Trinter, Florian, Usenko, Sergey, Wiese, Joss, Meyer, Michael, Trippel, Sebastian, and Küpper, Jochen
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Physics - Chemical Physics ,Physics - Atomic and Molecular Clusters - Abstract
A permanently available molecular-beam injection setup for controlled molecules (COMO) was installed and commissioned at the small quantum systems (SQS) instrument at the European x-ray free-electron laser (EuXFEL). A $b$-type electrostatic deflector allows for pure state-, size-, and isomer-selected samples of polar molecules and clusters. The source provides a rotationally cold ($T\approx1$~K) and dense ($\rho\approx10^8$~cm$^{-3}$) molecular beam with pulse durations up to 100~\us generated by a new version of the Even-Lavie valve. Here, a performance overview of the COMO setup is presented along with characterization experiments performed both, with an optical laser at the Center for Free-Electron-Laser Science and with x-rays at EuXFEL under burst-mode operation. COMO was designed to be attached to different instruments at the EuXFEL, in particular at the small quantum systems (SQS) and single particles, clusters, and biomolecules (SPB) instruments. This advanced controlled-molecules injection setup enables XFEL studies using highly defined samples with soft and hard x-ray FEL radiation for applications ranging from atomic, molecular, and cluster physics to elementary processes in chemistry and biology.
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- 2024
12. JWST/NIRCam Detection of the Fomalhaut C Debris Disk in Scattered Light
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Lawson, Kellen, Schlieder, Joshua E., Leisenring, Jarron M., Bogat, Ell, Beichman, Charles A., Bryden, Geoffrey, Gáspár, András, Groff, Tyler D., McElwain, Michael W., Meyer, Michael R., Barclay, Thomas, Calissendorff, Per, De Furio, Matthew, Li, Yiting, Rieke, Marcia J., Ygouf, Marie, Greene, Thomas P., Girard, Julien H., Gennaro, Mario, Kammerer, Jens, Rest, Armin, Roellig, Thomas L., and Sunnquist, Ben
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
Observations of debris disks offer important insights into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Though M dwarfs make up approximately 80% of nearby stars, very few M-dwarf debris disks have been studied in detail -- making it unclear how or if the information gleaned from studying debris disks around more massive stars extends to the more abundant M dwarf systems. We report the first scattered-light detection of the debris disk around the M4 star Fomalhaut C using JWST's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam; 3.6$~\mu$m and 4.4$~\mu$m). This result adds to the prior sample of only four M-dwarf debris disks with detections in scattered light, and marks the latest spectral type and oldest star among them. The size and orientation of the disk in these data are generally consistent with the prior ALMA sub-mm detection. Though no companions are identified, these data provide strong constraints on their presence -- with sensitivity sufficient to recover sub-Saturn mass objects in the vicinity of the disk. This result illustrates the unique capability of JWST for uncovering elusive M-dwarf debris disks in scattered light, and lays the groundwork for deeper studies of such objects in the 2--5$~\mu$m regime., Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures
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- 2024
13. The James Webb Interferometer: Space-based interferometric detections of PDS 70 b and c at 4.8 $\mu$m
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Blakely, Dori, Johnstone, Doug, Cugno, Gabriele, Sivaramakrishnan, Anand, Tuthill, Peter, Dong, Ruobing, Pope, Benjamin J. S., Albert, Loïc, Charles, Max, Cooper, Rachel A., De Furio, Matthew, Desdoigts, Louis, Doyon, René, Francis, Logan, Greenbaum, Alexandra Z., Lafrenière, David, Lloyd, James P., Meyer, Michael R., Pueyo, Laurent, Ray, Shrishmoy, Sánchez-Bermúdez, Joel, Soulain, Anthony, Thatte, Deepashri, and Vandal, Thomas
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
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 centered at 4.8 $\mu$m, we simultaneously fit a geometric model to the outer disk and the two known planetary companions. We re-detect the protoplanets PDS 70 b and c at an SNR of 21 and 11, respectively. Our photometry of both PDS 70 b and c provide evidence for circumplanetary disk emission through fitting SED models to these new measurements and those found in the literature. We also newly detect emission within the disk gap at an SNR of $\sim$4, at a position angle of $207^{+11}_{-10}$ degrees, and an unconstrained separation within $\sim$200 mas. Follow-up observations will be needed to determine the nature of this emission. We place a 5$\sigma$ upper limit of $\Delta$mag = 7.56 on the contrast of the candidate PDS 70 d at 4.8 $\mu$m, which indicates that if the previously observed emission at shorter wavelengths is due to a planet, this putative planet has a different atmospheric composition than PDS 70 b or c. Finally, we place upper limits on emission from any additional planets in the disk gap. We find an azimuthally averaged 5$\sigma$ upper limit of $\Delta$mag $\approx$ 7.5 at separations greater than 125 mas. These are the deepest limits to date within $\sim$250 mas at 4.8 $\mu$m and the first space-based interferometric observations of this system., Comment: Submitted to ApJ
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- 2024
14. Mid-Infrared Spectrum of the Disk around the Forming Companion GQ Lup B Revealed by JWST/MIRI
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Cugno, Gabriele, Patapis, Polychronis, Banzatti, Andrea, Meyer, Michael, Dannert, Felix A., Stolker, Tomas, MacDonald, Ryan J., and Pontoppidan, Klaus M.
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
GQ Lup B is a forming brown dwarf companion ($M\sim10-30~M_J$) showing evidence for an infrared excess associated with a disk surronding the companion itself. Here we present mid-infrared (MIR) observations of GQ Lup B with the Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS) on JWST, spanning $4.8-11.7~\mu$m. We remove the stellar contamination using reference differential imaging based on principal component analysis (PCA), demonstrating that the MRS can perform high-contrast science. Our observations provide a sensitive probe of the disk surrounding GQ Lup B. We find no sign of a silicate feature, similar to other disk surrounding very low mass objects, which likely implies significant grain growth ($a_{\mathrm{min}}\gtrsim5~\mu$m), and potentially dust settling. Additionally, we find that if the emission is dominated by an inner wall, the disk around the companion might have an inner cavity larger than the one set by sublimation. Conversely, if our data probe the emission from a thin flat disk, we find the disk to be very compact. More observations are required to confirm this finding and assess the vertical structure of the disk. This approach paves the path to the future study of circumplanetary disks and their physical properties. Our results demonstrate that MIR spectroscopic observations can reveal the physical characteristics of disks around forming companions, providing unique insights into the formation of giant planets, brown dwarfs and their satellites., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
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- 2024
15. JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects III: Detailed Imaging of the Nebular Environment Around the HL Tau Disk
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Mullin, Camryn, Dong, Ruobing, Leisenring, Jarron, Cugno, Gabriele, Greene, Thomas, Johnstone, Doug, Meyer, Michael R., Wagner, Kevin R., Wolff, Schuyler G., Boyer, Martha, Horner, Scott, Hodapp, Klaus, McCarthy, Don, Rieke, George, Rieke, Marcia, and Young, Erick
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
As part of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) program "Direct Imaging of YSOs" (program ID 1179), we use JWST NIRCam's direct imaging mode in F187N, F200W, F405N, and F410M to perform high contrast observations of the circumstellar structures surrounding the protostar HL Tau. The data reveal the known stellar envelope, outflow cavity, and streamers, but do not detect any companion candidates. We detect scattered light from an in-flowing spiral streamer previously detected in $\textrm{HCO}^+$ by ALMA, and part of the structure connected to the c-shaped outflow cavity. For detection limits in planet mass we use BEX evolutionary tracks when $M_\textrm{p}<2M_\textrm{J}$ and AMES-COND evolutionary tracks otherwise, assuming a planet age of 1 Myr (youngest available age). Inside the disk region, due to extended envelope emission, our point-source sensitivities are $\sim5$ mJy ($37~M_{\rm J}$) at 40 AU in F187N, and $\sim0.37$ mJy ($5.2~M_{\rm J}$) at 140 AU in F405N. Outside the disk region, the deepest limits we can reach are $\sim0.01$ mJy ($0.75~M_{\rm J}$) at a projected separation of $\sim525$ AU., Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, accepted to AAS Astronomical Journal
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- 2024
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16. High-precision atmospheric characterization of a Y dwarf with JWST NIRSpec G395H spectroscopy: isotopologue, C/O ratio, metallicity, and the abundances of six molecular species
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Lew, Ben W. P., Roellig, Thomas, Batalha, Natasha E., Line, Michael, Greene, Thomas, Murkherjee, Sagnick, Freedman, Richard, Meyer, Michael, Beichman, Charles, De Oliveira, Catarina Alves, De Furio, Matthew, Johnstone, Doug, Greenbaum, Alexandra Z., Marley, Mark, Fortney, Jonathan J., Young, Erick T., Leisenring, Jarron, Boyer, Martha, Hodapp, Klaus, Misselt, Karl, Stansberry, John, and Rieke, Marcia
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) marks a pivotal moment for precise atmospheric characterization of Y dwarfs, the coldest brown dwarf spectral type. In this study, we leverage moderate spectral resolution observations (R $\sim$ 2700) with the G395H grating of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard of JWST to characterize the nearby (9.9 pc) Y dwarf WISEPA J182831.08+265037.8 (WISE 1828). With the NIRSpec G395H 2.88-5.12 $\mathrm{\mu}$m spectrum, we measure the abundances of CO, CO$_2$, CH$_4$, H$_2$S, NH$_3$, and H$_2$O, which are the major carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur bearing species in the atmosphere. Based on the retrieved volume mixing ratios with the atmospheric retrieval framework CHIMERA, we report that the C/O ratio is $0.45 \pm 0.01$, close to the solar C/O value of 0.55, and the metallicity to be +0.30 $\pm$ 0.02 dex. Comparison between the retrieval results with the forward modeling results suggests that the model bias for C/O and metallicity could be as high as 0.03 and 0.97 dex respectively. We also report a lower limit of the $^{12}$CO/$^{13}$CO ratio of $>40 $, being consistent with the nominal solar value of 90. Our results highlight the potential of JWST in measuring the C/O ratios down to percent-level precision and characterizing isotopologues of cold planetary atmospheres similar to WISE 1828., Comment: 18 pages + references, including 11 figures, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
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- 2024
17. Ultrafast Nuclear Dynamics in Double-Core Ionized Water Molecules
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Ismail, Iyas, Inhester, Ludger, Marchenko, Tatiana, Trinter, Florian, Verma, Abhishek, De Fanis, Alberto, Ferte, Anthony, Rivas, Daniel E., Peng, Dawei, Koulentianos, Dimitris, Kukk, Edwin, Penent, Francis, Doumy, Gilles, Sansone, Giuseppe, Bozek, John D., Li, Kai, Young, Linda, Ilchen, Markus, Piancastelli, Maria Novella, Meyer, Michael, Velasquez, Nicolas, Travnikova, Oksana, Boll, Rebecca, Guillemin, Renaud, Dorner, Reinhard, Taieb, Richard, Dold, Simon, Carniato, Stephane, Baumann, Thomas M., Mazza, Tommaso, Ovcharenko, Yevheniy, Puttner, Ralph, and Simon, Marc
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Physics - Chemical Physics - Abstract
Double-core-hole (DCH) states in isolated water and heavy water molecules, resulting from the sequential absorption of two x-ray photons, have been investigated. A comparison of the subsequent Auger emission spectra from the two isotopes provides direct evidence of ultrafast nuclear motion during the 1.5 fs lifetime of these DCH states. Our numerical results align well with the experimental data, providing for various DCH states an in-depth study of the dynamics responsible of the observed isotope effect.
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- 2024
18. The outflow of the protostar in B335: I
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Hodapp, Klaus W., Chu, Laurie L., Greene, Thomas, Meyer, Michael R., Johnstone, Doug, Rieke, Marcia J., Stansberry, John, Boyer, Martha, Beichman, Charles, Horner, Scott, Roellig, Tom, Rieke, George, and Young, Eric T.
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Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies - Abstract
The isolated globule B335 contains a single, low luminosity Class 0 protostar associated with a bipolar nebula and outflow system seen nearly perpendicular to its axis. We observed the innermost regions of this outflow as part of JWST/NIRCam GTO program 1187, primarily intended for wide-field slitless spectroscopy of background stars behind the globule. We find a system of expanding shock fronts with kinematic ages of only a few decades emerging symmetrically from the position of the embedded protostar, which is not directly detected at NIRCam wavelengths. The innermost and youngest of the shock fronts studied here shows strong emission from CO. The next older shock front shows less CO and the third shock front shows only H_2 emission in our data. This third and most distant of these inner shock fronts shows substantial evolution of its shape since it was last observed with high spatial resolution in 1996 with Keck/NIRC. This may be evidence of a faster internal shock catching up with a slower one and of the two shocks merging., Comment: This paper is accepted by The Astronomical Journal
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- 2024
19. JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects. II. Deep Constraints on Giant Planets and a Planet Candidate Outside of the Spiral Disk Around SAO 206462
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Cugno, Gabriele, Leisenring, Jarron, Wagner, Kevin R., Mullin, Camryn, Dong, Roubing, Greene, Thomas, Johnstone, Doug, Meyer, Michael R., Wolff, Schuyler G., Beichman, Charles, Boyer, Martha, Horner, Scott, Hodapp, Klaus, Kelly, Doug, McCarthy, Don, Roellig, Thomas, Rieke, George, Rieke, Marcia, Stansberry, John, and Young, Erick
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
We present JWST/NIRCam F187N, F200W, F405N and F410M direct imaging data of the disk surrounding SAO 206462. Previous images show a very structured disk, with a pair of spiral arms thought to be launched by one or more external perturbers. The spiral features are visible in three of the four filters, with the non-detection in F410M due to the large detector saturation radius. We detect with a signal-to-noise ratio of 4.4 a companion candidate (CC1) that, if on a coplanar circular orbit, would orbit SAO 206462 at a separation of $\sim300$ au, $2.25\sigma$ away from the predicted separation for the driver of the eastern spiral. According to the BEX models, CC1 has a mass of $M_\mathrm{CC1}=0.8\pm0.3~M_\mathrm{J}$. No other companion candidates were detected. At the location predicted by simulations of both spirals generated by a single massive companion, the NIRCam data exclude objects more massive than $\sim2.2~M_\mathrm{J}$ assuming the BEX evolutionary models. In terms of temperatures, the data are sensitive to objects with $T_{\text{eff}}\sim650-850$ K, when assuming planets emit like blackbodies ($R_\mathrm{p}$ between 1 and $3 R_\mathrm{J}$). From these results, we conclude that if the spirals are driven by gas giants, these must be either cold or embedded in circumplanetary material. In addition, the NIRCam data provide tight constraints on ongoing accretion processes. In the low extinction scenario we are sensitive to mass accretion rates of the order $\dot{M}\sim10^{-9} M_\mathrm{J}$ yr$^{-1}$. Thanks to the longer wavelengths used to search for emission lines, we reach unprecedented sensitivities to processes with $\dot{M}\sim10^{-7} M_\mathrm{J}$ yr$^{-1}$ even towards highly extincted environments ($A_\mathrm{V}\approx50$~mag)., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
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20. JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects. I. Constraints on Planets Exterior to The Spiral Disk Around MWC 758
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Wagner, Kevin, Leisenring, Jarron, Cugno, Gabriele, Mullin, Camryn, Dong, Ruobing, Wolff, Schuyler G., Greene, Thomas, Johnstone, Doug, Meyer, Michael R., Beichman, Charles, Boyer, Martha, Horner, Scott, Hodapp, Klaus, Kelly, Doug, McCarthy, Don, Roellig, Tom, Rieke, George, Rieke, Marcia, Sitko, Michael, Stansberry, John, and Young, Erick
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
MWC 758 is a young star hosting a spiral protoplanetary disk. The spirals are likely companion-driven, and two previously-identified candidate companions have been identified -- one at the end the Southern spiral arm at ~0.6 arcsec, and one interior to the gap at ~0.1 arcsec. With JWST/NIRCam, we provide new images of the disk and constraints on planets exterior to ~1". We detect the two-armed spiral disk, a known background star, and a spatially resolved background galaxy, but no clear companions. The candidates that have been reported are at separations that are not probed by our data with sensitivity sufficient to detect them -- nevertheless, these observations place new limits on companions down to ~2 Jupiter-masses at ~150 au and ~0.5 Jupiter masses at ~600 au. Owing to the unprecedented sensitivity of JWST and youth of the target, these are among the deepest mass-detection limits yet obtained through direct imaging observations, and provide new insights into the system's dynamical nature., Comment: Accepted for publication in AJ
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21. Looking Back: American Jews’ Relationships to Their Places of Origin
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Meyer, Michael A.
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22. Generation of entanglement using a short-wavelength seeded free-electron laser
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Nandi, Saikat, Stenquist, Axel, Papoulia, Asimina, Olofsson, Edvin, Badano, Laura, Bertolino, Mattias, Busto, David, Callegari, Carlo, Carlström, Stefanos, Danailov, Miltcho B., Demekhin, Philipp V., Di Fraia, Michele, Eng-Johnsson, Per, Feifel, Raimund, Gallician, Guillaume, Giannessi, Luca, Gisselbrecht, Mathieu, Manfredda, Michele, Meyer, Michael, Miron, Catalin, Peschel, Jasper, Plekan, Oksana, Prince, Kevin C., Squibb, Richard J., Zangrando, Marco, Zapata, Felipe, Zhong, Shiyang, and Dahlström, Jan Marcus
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Quantum entanglement between the degrees of freedom encountered in the classical world is challenging to observe due to the surrounding environment. To elucidate this issue, we investigate the entanglement generated over ultrafast timescales in a bipartite quantum system comprising two massive particles: a free-moving photoelectron, which expands to a mesoscopic length-scale, and a light-dressed atomic ion, which represents a hybrid state of light and matter. Although the photoelectron spectra are measured classically, the entanglement allows us to reveal information about the dressed-state dynamics of the ion and the femtosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses delivered by a seeded free-electron laser. The observed generation of entanglement is interpreted using the time-dependent von Neumann entropy. Our results unveil the potential for using short-wavelength coherent light pulses from free-electron lasers to generate entangled photoelectron and ion systems for studying spooky action at a distance., Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected in the updated version
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23. The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems V: Do Self-Consistent Atmospheric Models Represent JWST Spectra? A Showcase With VHS 1256 b
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Petrus, Simon, Whiteford, Niall, Patapis, Polychronis, Biller, Beth A., Skemer, Andrew, Hinkley, Sasha, Suárez, Genaro, Lueber, Anna, Palma-Bifani, Paulina, Stone, Jordan M., Vos, Johanna M., Morley, Caroline V., Tremblin, Pascal, Charnay, Benjamin, Helling, Christiane, Miles, Brittany E., Carter, Aarynn L., Wang, Jason J., Janson, Markus, Gonzales, Eileen C., Sutlieff, Ben, Hoch, Kielan K. W., Bonnefoy, Mickaël, Chauvin, Gaël, Absil, Olivier, Balmer, William O., Boccaletti, Anthony, Bonavita, Mariangela, Booth, Mark, Bowler, Brendan P., Briesemeister, Zackery W., Bryan, Marta L., Calissendorff, Per, Cantalloube, Faustine, Chen, Christine H., Choquet, Elodie, Christiaens, Valentin, Cugno, Gabriele, Currie, Thayne, Danielski, Camilla, De Furio, Matthew, Dupuy, Trent J., Factor, Samuel M., Faherty, Jacqueline K., Fitzgerald, Michael P., Fortney, Jonathan J., Franson, Kyle, Girard, Julien H., Grady, Carol A., Henning, Thomas, Hines, Dean C., Hood, Callie E., Howe, Alex R., Kalas, Paul, Kammerer, Jens, Kennedy, Grant M., Kenworthy, Matthew A., Kervella, Pierre, Kim, Minjae, Kitzmann, Daniel, Kraus, Adam L., Kuzuhara, Masayuki, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Lagrange, Anne-Marie, Lawson, Kellen, Lazzoni, Cecilia, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lew, Ben W. P., Liu, Michael C., Liu, Pengyu, Llop-Sayson, Jorge, Lloyd, James P., Macintosh, Bruce, Mâlin, Mathilde, Manjavacas, Elena, Marino, Sebastián, Marley, Mark S., Marois, Christian, Martinez, Raquel A., Matthews, Elisabeth C., Matthews, Brenda C., Mawet, Dimitri, Mazoyer, Johan, McElwain, Michael W., Metchev, Stanimir, Meyer, Michael R., Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell A., Mollière, Paul, Moran, Sarah E., Mukherjee, Sagnick, Pantin, Eric, Perrin, Marshall D., Pueyo, Laurent, Quanz, Sascha P., Quirrenbach, Andreas, Ray, Shrishmoy, Rebollido, Isabel, Redai, Jea Adams, Ren, Bin B., Rickman, Emily, Sallum, Steph, Samland, Matthias, Sargent, Benjamin, Schlieder, Joshua E., Stapelfeldt, Karl R., Tamura, Motohide, Tan, Xianyu, Theissen, Christopher A., Uyama, Taichi, Vasist, Malavika, Vigan, Arthur, Wagner, Kevin, Ward-Duong, Kimberly, Wolff, Schuyler G., Worthen, Kadin, Wyatt, Mark C., Ygouf, Marie, Zurlo, Alice, Zhang, Xi, Zhang, Keming, Zhan, Zhoujian, and Zhou, Yifan
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
The unprecedented medium-resolution (R~1500-3500) near- and mid-infrared (1-18um) spectrum provided by JWST for the young (140+/-20Myr) low-mass (12-20MJup) L-T transition (L7) companion VHS1256b gives access to a catalogue of molecular absorptions. In this study, we present a comprehensive analysis of this dataset utilizing a forward modelling approach, applying our Bayesian framework, ForMoSA. We explore five distinct atmospheric models to assess their performance in estimating key atmospheric parameters: Teff, log(g), [M/H], C/O, gamma, fsed, and R. Our findings reveal that each parameter's estimate is significantly influenced by factors such as the wavelength range considered and the model chosen for the fit. This is attributed to systematic errors in the models and their challenges in accurately replicating the complex atmospheric structure of VHS1256b, notably the complexity of its clouds and dust distribution. To propagate the impact of these systematic uncertainties on our atmospheric property estimates, we introduce innovative fitting methodologies based on independent fits performed on different spectral windows. We finally derived a Teff consistent with the spectral type of the target, considering its young age, which is confirmed by our estimate of log(g). Despite the exceptional data quality, attaining robust estimates for chemical abundances [M/H] and C/O, often employed as indicators of formation history, remains challenging. Nevertheless, the pioneering case of JWST's data for VHS1256b has paved the way for future acquisitions of substellar spectra that will be systematically analyzed to directly compare the properties of these objects and correct the systematics in the models., Comment: 32 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables, 2 appendices
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24. Opportunities for Gas-Phase Science at Short-Wavelength Free-Electron Lasers with Undulator-Based Polarization Control
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Ilchen, Markus, Allaria, Enrico, Ribič, Primož Rebernik, Nuhn, Heinz-Dieter, Lutman, Alberto, Schneidmiller, Evgeny, Tischer, Markus, Yurkov, Mikail, Calvi, Marco, Prat, Eduard, Reiche, Sven, Schmidt, Thomas, Geloni, Gianluca Aldo, Karabekyan, Suren, Yan, Jiawei, Serkez, Svitozar, Gao, Zhangfeng, Deng, Bangjie, Feng, Chao, Deng, Haixiao, Helml, Wolfram, Funke, Lars, Larsson, Mats, Vitali, Zhaunerchyk, Meyer, Michael, Mazza, Tommaso, Jahnke, Till, Doerner, Reinhard, Calegari, Francesca, Smirnova, Olga, Vozzi, Caterina, De Ninno, Giovanni, Waetzel, Jonas, Berakdar, Jamal, Sadia, Bari, Schwob, Lucas, Rouxel, Jérémy R., Mukamel, Shaul, Bartschat, Klaus, Hamilton, Kathryn, Argenti, Luca, Douguet, Nicolas, Novikovskiy, Nikolay M., Demekhin, Philipp V., and Walter, Peter
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Physics - Atomic Physics ,Physics - Optics - Abstract
Free-electron lasers (FELs) are the world's most brilliant light sources with rapidly evolving technological capabilities in terms of ultrabright and ultrashort pulses over a large range of accessible photon energies. Their revolutionary and innovative developments have opened new fields of science regarding nonlinear light-matter interaction, the investigation of ultrafast processes from specific observer sites, and approaches to imaging matter with atomic resolution. A core aspect of FEL science is the study of isolated and prototypical systems in the gas phase with the possibility of addressing well-defined electronic transitions or particular atomic sites in molecules. Notably for polarization-controlled short-wavelength FELs, the gas phase offers new avenues for investigations of nonlinear and ultrafast phenomena in spin orientated systems, for decoding the function of the chiral building blocks of life as well as steering reactions and particle emission dynamics in otherwise inaccessible ways. This roadmap comprises descriptions of technological capabilities of facilities worldwide, innovative diagnostics and instrumentation, as well as recent scientific highlights, novel methodology and mathematical modeling. The experimental and theoretical landscape of using polarization controllable FELs for dichroic light-matter interaction in the gas phase will be discussed and comprehensively outlined to stimulate and strengthen global collaborative efforts of all disciplines.
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25. Searching for Planets Orbiting Fomalhaut with JWST/NIRCam
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Ygouf, Marie, Beichman, Charles, Llop-Sayson, Jorge, Bryden, Geoffrey, Leisenring, Jarron, Gaspar, Andras, Krist, John, Rieke, Marcia, Rieke, George, Wolff, Schuyler, Roellig, Thomas, Su, Kate, Hainline, Kevin, Hodapp, Klaus, Greene, Thomas, Meyer, Michael, Kelly, Doug, Misselt, Karl, Stansberry, John, Boyer, Martha, Johnstone, Doug, Horner, Scott, and Greenbaum, Alexandra
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
We report observations with the JWST/NIRCam coronagraph of the Fomalhaut system. This nearby A star hosts a complex debris disk system discovered by the IRAS satellite. Observations in F444W and F356W filters using the round 430R mask achieve a contrast ratio of ~ 4 x 10-7 at 1'' and ~ 4 x 10-8 outside of 3''. These observations reach a sensitivity limit <1 MJup across most of the disk region. Consistent with the hypothesis that Fomalhaut b is not a massive planet but is a dust cloud from a planetesimal collision, we do not detect it in either F356W or F444W (the latter band where a Jovian-sized planet should be bright). We have reliably detected 10 sources in and around Fomalhaut and its debris disk, all but one of which are coincident with Keck or HST sources seen in earlier coronagraphic imaging; we show them to be background objects, including the "Great Dust Cloud" identified in MIRI data. However, one of the objects, located at the edge of the inner dust disk seen in the MIRI images, has no obvious counterpart in imaging at earlier epochs and has a relatively red [F356W]-[F444W]>0.7 mag (Vega) color. Whether this object is a background galaxy, brown dwarf, or a Jovian mass planet in the Fomalhaut system will be determined by an approved Cycle 2 follow-up program. Finally, we set upper limits to any scattered light from the outer ring, placing a weak limit on the dust albedo at F356W and F444W., Comment: 24 pages, 17 figures
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26. The \textit{JWST} Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems III: Aperture Masking Interferometric Observations of the star HIP\,65426 at $\boldsymbol{3.8\,\rm{\mu m}}$
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Ray, Shrishmoy, Sallum, Steph, Hinkley, Sasha, Sivamarakrishnan, Anand, Cooper, Rachel, Kammerer, Jens, Greebaum, Alexandra Z., Thatte, Deepashri, Lazzoni, Cecilia, Tokovinin, Andrei, de Furio, Matthew, Factor, Samuel, Meyer, Michael, Stone, Jordan M., Carter, Aarynn, Biller, Beth, Skemer, Andrew, Suarez, Genaro, Leisenring, Jarron M., Perrin, Marshall D., Kraus, Adam L., Absil, Olivier, Balmer, William O., Bonnefoy, Mickael, Bryan, Marta L., Betti, Sarah K., Boccaletti, Anthony, Bonavita, Mariangela, Booth, Mark, Bowler, Brendan P., Briesemeister, Zackery W., Cantalloube, Faustine, Chauvin, Gael, Christiaens, Valentin, Cugno, Gabriele, Currie, Thayne, Danielski, Camilla, Dupuy, Trent J., Faherty, Jacqueline K., Chen, Christine H., Calissendorff, Per, Choquet, Elodie, Fitzgerald, Michael P., Fortney, Jonathan J., Franson, Kyle, Girard, Julien H., Grady, Carol A., Gonzales, Eileen C., Henning, Thomas, Hines, Dean C., Hoch, Kielan K. W., Hood, Callie E., Howe, Alex R., Janson, Markus, Kalas, Paul, Kennedy, Grant M., Kenworthy, Matthew A., Kervella, Pierre, Kitzmann, Daniel, Kuzuhara, Masayuki, Lagrange, Anne-Marie, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Lawson, Kellen, Lew, Ben W. P., Liu, Michael C., Liu, Pengyu, Llop-Sayson, Jorge, Lloyd, James P., Lueber, Anna, Macintosh, Bruce, Manjavacas, Elena, Marino, Sebastian, Marley, Mark S., Marois, Christian, Martinez, Raquel A., Matthews, Brenda C., Matthews, Elisabeth C., Mawet, Dimitri, Mazoyer, Johan, McElwain, Michael W., Metchev, Stanimir, Miles, Brittany E., Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell A., Molliere, Paul, Moran, Sarah E., Morley, Caroline V., Mukherjee, Sagnick, Palma-Bifani, Paulina, Pantin, Eric, Patapis, Polychronis, Petrus, Simon, Pueyo, Laurent, Quanz, Sascha P., Quirrenbach, Andreas, Rebollido, Isabel, Redai, Jea Adams, Ren, Bin B., Rickman, Emily, Samland, Matthias, Sargent, B. A., Schlieder, Joshua E., Schneider, Glenn, Stapelfeldt, Karl R., Sutlieff, Ben J., Tamura, Motohide, Tan, Xianyu, Theissen, Christopher A., Uyama, Taichi, Vigan, Arthur, Vasist, Malavika, Vos, Johanna M., Wagner, Kevin, Wang, Jason J., Ward-Duong, Kimberly, Whiteford, Niall, Wolff, Schuyler G., Worthen, Kadin, Wyatt, Mark C., Ygouf, Marie, Zhang, Xi, Zhang, Keming, Zhang, Zhoujian, and Zhou, Yifan
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
We present aperture masking interferometry (AMI) observations of the star HIP 65426 at $3.8\,\rm{\mu m}$ as a part of the \textit{JWST} Direct Imaging Early Release Science (ERS) program obtained using the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument. This mode provides access to very small inner working angles (even separations slightly below the Michelson limit of ${}0.5\lambda/D$ for an interferometer), which are inaccessible with the classical inner working angles of the \textit{JWST} coronagraphs. When combined with \textit{JWST}'s unprecedented infrared sensitivity, this mode has the potential to probe a new portion of parameter space across a wide array of astronomical observations. Using this mode, we are able to achieve a contrast of $\Delta m_{F380M}{\sim }7.8$\,mag relative to the host star at a separation of ${\sim}0.07\arcsec$ but detect no additional companions interior to the known companion HIP\,65426\,b. Our observations thus rule out companions more massive than $10{-}12\,\rm{M\textsubscript{Jup}}$ at separations ${\sim}10{-}20\,\rm{au}$ from HIP\,65426, a region out of reach of ground or space-based coronagraphic imaging. These observations confirm that the AMI mode on \textit{JWST} is sensitive to planetary mass companions orbiting at the water frost line, even for more distant stars at $\sim$100\,pc. This result will allow the planning and successful execution of future observations to probe the inner regions of nearby stellar systems, opening essentially unexplored parameter space., Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters
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27. The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems IV: NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry Performance and Lessons Learned
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Sallum, Steph, Ray, Shrishmoy, Kammerer, Jens, Sivaramakrishnan, Anand, Cooper, Rachel, Greebaum, Alexandra Z., Thatte, Deepashri, de Furio, Matthew, Factor, Samuel, Meyer, Michael, Stone, Jordan M., Carter, Aarynn, Biller, Beth, Hinkley, Sasha, Skemer, Andrew, Suarez, Genaro, Leisenring, Jarron M., Perrin, Marshall D., Kraus, Adam L., Absil, Olivier, Balmer, William O., Bonnefoy, Mickael, Bryan, Marta L., Betti, Sarah K., Boccaletti, Anthony, Bonavita, Mariangela, Booth, Mark, Bowler, Brendan P., Briesemeister, Zackery W., Cantalloube, Faustine, Chauvin, Gael, Christiaens, Valentin, Cugno, Gabriele, Currie, Thayne, Danielski, Camilla, Dupuy, Trent J., Faherty, Jacqueline K., Chen, Christine H., Calissendorff, Per, Choquet, Elodie, Fitzgerald, Michael P., Fortney, Jonathan J., Franson, Kyle, Girard, Julien H., Grady, Carol A., Gonzales, Eileen C., Henning, Thomas, Hines, Dean C., Hoch, Kielan K. W., Hood, Callie E., Howe, Alex R., Janson, Markus, Kalas, Paul, Kennedy, Grant M., Kenworthy, Matthew A., Kervella, Pierre, Kitzmann, Daniel, Kuzuhara, Masayuki, Lagrange, Anne-Marie, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Lawson, Kellen, Lazzoni, Cecilia, Lew, Ben W. P., Liu, Michael C., Liu, Pengyu, Llop-Sayson, Jorge, Lloyd, James P., Lueber, Anna, Macintosh, Bruce, Manjavacas, Elena, Marino, Sebastian, Marley, Mark S., Marois, Christian, Martinez, Raquel A., Matthews, Brenda C., Matthews, Elisabeth C., Mawet, Dimitri, Mazoyer, Johan, McElwain, Michael W., Metchev, Stanimir, Miles, Brittany E., Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell A., Molliere, Paul, Moran, Sarah E., Morley, Caroline V., Mukherjee, Sagnick, Palma-Bifani, Paulina, Pantin, Eric, Patapis, Polychronis, Petrus, Simon, Pueyo, Laurent, Quanz, Sascha P., Quirrenbach, Andreas, Rebollido, Isabel, Redai, Jea Adams, Ren, Bin B., Rickman, Emily, Samland, Matthias, Sargent, B. A., Schlieder, Joshua E., Schneider, Glenn, Stapelfeldt, Karl R., Sutlieff, Ben J., Tamura, Motohide, Tan, Xianyu, Theissen, Christopher A., Uyama, Taichi, Vigan, Arthur, Vasist, Malavika, Vos, Johanna M., Wagner, Kevin, Wang, Jason J., Ward-Duong, Kimberly, Whiteford, Niall, Wolff, Schuyler G., Worthen, Kadin, Wyatt, Mark C., Ygouf, Marie, Zhang, Xi, Zhang, Keming, Zhang, Zhoujian, Zhou, Yifan, and Zurlo, Alice
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
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/NIRISS). Thanks to self-calibrating observables, AMI accesses inner working angles down to and even within the classical diffraction limit. The scientific potential of this mode has recently been demonstrated by the Early Release Science (ERS) 1386 program with a deep search for close-in companions in the HIP 65426 exoplanetary system. As part of ERS 1386, we use the same data set to explore the random, static, and calibration errors of NIRISS AMI observables. We compare the observed noise properties and achievable contrast to theoretical predictions. We explore possible sources of calibration errors and show that differences in charge migration between the observations of HIP 65426 and point-spread function calibration stars can account for the achieved contrast curves. Lastly, we use self-calibration tests to demonstrate that with adequate calibration NIRISS F380M AMI can reach contrast levels of $\sim9-10$ mag at $\gtrsim \lambda/D$. These tests lead us to observation planning recommendations and strongly motivate future studies aimed at producing sophisticated calibration strategies taking these systematic effects into account. This will unlock the unprecedented capabilities of JWST/NIRISS AMI, with sensitivity to significantly colder, lower-mass exoplanets than lower-contrast ground-based AMI setups, at orbital separations inaccessible to JWST coronagraphy., Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures, accepted to Astrophysical Journal Letters
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28. Preface
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Meyer, Michael A. and Myers, David
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29. 6. Essays on Ideology and Propaganda
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Meyer, Michael A. and Myers, David
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30. 3. The Malzūmāt (Satirical Ballads)
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31. Contents
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32. 2. The Piyyutim (Liturgical Poems)
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33. 1. The Flowering of Judeo-Arabic Literature in North Africa
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34. Title Page, Copyright
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35. 7. The Drama and the Theater
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36. 9. Translation of Daniel Ḥagège’s Circulation of Tunisian Judeo-Arabic Books
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37. 5. The Ghnāyāt (Songs)
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38. 4. The Qinot (Laments)
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39. Appendix 1: Judeo-Arabic Journals and Other Periodicals
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40. 8. The Ḥikāyāt and Deeds of Righteous Men
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41. Index
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42. Notes
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43. Appendix 2: Judeo-Arabic Books
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44. Bibliography
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45. Title Page, Copyright Page
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46. 1. Caring for an Intermarried Jew by Converting His Partner: Rabbi Uzziel’s Earliest Responsum on Giyur (Salonica, c. 1922)
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47. 5. The Touro Monument Controversy: Aniconism vs. Anti-Idolatry in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Religious Dispute
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Meyer, Michael A. and Myers, David
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48. 2. Gaining Moral Guidance from the Jewish Tradition: Four Examples to Test David Ellenson’s Approach and Mine
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Meyer, Michael A. and Myers, David
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49. 3. The Role of Reform in Israeli Orthodoxy
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Meyer, Michael A. and Myers, David
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50. Part 1: Law
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