The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2024)
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,
- Anand Sivaramakrishnan,
- Rachel Cooper,
- Alexandra Z. Greebaum,
- Deepashri Thatte,
- Matthew De Furio,
- Samuel M. Factor,
- Michael R. Meyer,
- Jordan M. Stone,
- Aarynn Carter,
- Beth Biller,
- Sasha Hinkley,
- Andrew Skemer,
- Genaro Suárez,
- Jarron M. Leisenring,
- Marshall D. Perrin,
- Adam L. Kraus,
- Olivier Absil,
- William O. Balmer,
- Sarah K. Betti,
- Anthony Boccaletti,
- Mariangela Bonavita,
- Mickael Bonnefoy,
- Mark Booth,
- Brendan P. Bowler,
- Zackery W. Briesemeister,
- Marta L. Bryan,
- Per Calissendorff,
- Faustine Cantalloube,
- Gael Chauvin,
- Christine H. Chen,
- Elodie Choquet,
- Valentin Christiaens,
- Gabriele Cugno,
- Thayne Currie,
- Camilla Danielski,
- Trent J. Dupuy,
- Jacqueline K. Faherty,
- Michael P. Fitzgerald,
- Jonathan J. Fortney,
- Kyle Franson,
- Julien H. Girard,
- Carol A. Grady,
- Eileen C. Gonzales,
- Thomas Henning,
- Dean C. Hines,
- Kielan K. W. Hoch,
- Callie E. Hood,
- Alex R. Howe,
- Markus Janson,
- Paul Kalas,
- Grant M. Kennedy,
- Matthew A. Kenworthy,
- Pierre Kervella,
- Daniel Kitzmann,
- Masayuki Kuzuhara,
- Anne-Marie Lagrange,
- Pierre-Olivier Lagage,
- Kellen Lawson,
- Cecilia Lazzoni,
- Ben W. P. Lew,
- Michael C. Liu,
- Pengyu Liu,
- Jorge Llop-Sayson,
- James P. Lloyd,
- Anna Lueber,
- Bruce Macintosh,
- Elena Manjavacas,
- Sebastian Marino,
- Mark S. Marley,
- Christian Marois,
- Raquel A. Martinez,
- Brenda C. Matthews,
- Elisabeth C. Matthews,
- Dimitri Mawet,
- Johan Mazoyer,
- Michael W. McElwain,
- Stanimir Metchev,
- Brittany E. Miles,
- Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer,
- Paul Molliere,
- Sarah E. Moran,
- Caroline V. Morley,
- Sagnick Mukherjee,
- Paulina Palma-Bifani,
- Eric Pantin,
- Polychronis Patapis,
- Simon Petrus,
- Laurent Pueyo,
- Sascha P. Quanz,
- Andreas Quirrenbach,
- Isabel Rebollido,
- Jea Adams Redai,
- Bin B. Ren,
- Emily Rickman,
- Matthias Samland,
- B. A. Sargent,
- Joshua E. Schlieder,
- Glenn Schneider,
- Karl R. Stapelfeldt,
- Ben J. Sutlieff,
- Motohide Tamura,
- Xianyu Tan,
- Christopher A. Theissen,
- Taichi Uyama,
- Arthur Vigan,
- Malavika Vasist,
- Johanna M. Vos,
- Kevin Wagner,
- Jason J. Wang,
- Kimberly Ward-Duong,
- Niall Whiteford,
- Schuyler G. Wolff,
- Kadin Worthen,
- Mark C. Wyatt,
- Marie Ygouf,
- Xi Zhang,
- Keming Zhang,
- Zhoujian Zhang,
- Yifan Zhou,
- Alice Zurlo
Affiliations
- Steph Sallum
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; [email protected]
- Shrishmoy Ray
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- University of Exeter , Astrophysics Group, Physics Building, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK
- Jens Kammerer
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- European Southern Observatory , Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Anand Sivaramakrishnan
- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Rachel Cooper
- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Alexandra Z. Greebaum
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Deepashri Thatte
- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Matthew De Furio
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , 2515 Speedway Stop C1400, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Samuel M. Factor
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , 2515 Speedway Stop C1400, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Michael R. Meyer
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan , 1085 S. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Jordan M. Stone
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- Naval Research Laboratory , Remote Sensing Division, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20375, USA
- Aarynn Carter
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California , Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Beth Biller
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance , Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK; Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
- Sasha Hinkley
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- University of Exeter , Astrophysics Group, Physics Building, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK
- Andrew Skemer
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California , Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Genaro Suárez
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- Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History , Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA
- Jarron M. Leisenring
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- Steward Observatory and the Department of Astronomy, The University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Marshall D. Perrin
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Adam L. Kraus
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , 2515 Speedway Stop C1400, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Olivier Absil
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- Space Sciences, Technologies & Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège , Allée du Six Août 19c, B-4000 Sart Tilman, Belgium
- William O. Balmer
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Sarah K. Betti
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Anthony Boccaletti
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- LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL , CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
- Mariangela Bonavita
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- School of Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, The Open University , Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
- Mickael Bonnefoy
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- Université Grenoble Alpes , Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique (IPAG), F-38000 Grenoble, France
- Mark Booth
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- UK Astronomy Technology Centre , Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
- Brendan P. Bowler
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , 2515 Speedway Stop C1400, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Zackery W. Briesemeister
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- NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Marta L. Bryan
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- Department of Astronomy, 501 Campbell Hall, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA
- Per Calissendorff
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan , 1085 S. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Faustine Cantalloube
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- Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France
- Gael Chauvin
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- Laboratoire J.-L. Lagrange, Université Cote d’Azur , CNRS, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, 06304 Nice, France
- Christine H. Chen
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Elodie Choquet
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- Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France
- Valentin Christiaens
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- Space Sciences, Technologies & Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège , Allée du Six Août 19c, B-4000 Sart Tilman, Belgium
- Gabriele Cugno
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan , 1085 S. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Thayne Currie
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas-San Antonio , 1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX, USA; Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , 650 North A‘ohōkū Place, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
- Camilla Danielski
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía , CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008, Granada, Spain
- Trent J. Dupuy
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- Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh , Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK
- Jacqueline K. Faherty
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- Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History , Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA
- Michael P. Fitzgerald
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- University of California , Los Angeles, 430 Portola Plaza, Box 951547, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA
- Jonathan J. Fortney
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California , Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Kyle Franson
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , 2515 Speedway Stop C1400, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Julien H. Girard
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Carol A. Grady
- Eureka Scientific , 2452 Delmer. St., Suite 1, Oakland CA, 96402, USA
- Eileen C. Gonzales
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University , 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
- Thomas Henning
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Dean C. Hines
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Kielan K. W. Hoch
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- Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California , San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Callie E. Hood
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California , Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Alex R. Howe
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- NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Markus Janson
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- Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, AlbaNova University Center , SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Paul Kalas
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- Department of Astronomy, 501 Campbell Hall, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA; SETI Institute , Carl Sagan Center, 189 Bernardo Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; Institute of Astrophysics , FORTH, GR-71110 Heraklion, Greece
- Grant M. Kennedy
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick , Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
- Matthew A. Kenworthy
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- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- Pierre Kervella
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- LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL , CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
- Daniel Kitzmann
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- Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern , Gesellschaftsstrasse. 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
- Masayuki Kuzuhara
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- Astrobiology Center of NINS , 2-21-1, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588, Japan
- Anne-Marie Lagrange
- LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL , CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
- Pierre-Olivier Lagage
- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité , CEA, CNRS, AIM, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Kellen Lawson
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- NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Cecilia Lazzoni
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- University of Exeter , Astrophysics Group, Physics Building, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK
- Ben W. P. Lew
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- Bay Area Environmental Research Institute and NASA Ames Research Center , Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
- Michael C. Liu
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- Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai’i , 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
- Pengyu Liu
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance , Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK; Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
- Jorge Llop-Sayson
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- Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- James P. Lloyd
- Department of Astronomy and Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University , 122 Sciences Drive, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- Anna Lueber
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- Ludwig Maximilian University, University Observatory Munich , Scheinerstrasse 1, Munich D-81679, Germany
- Bruce Macintosh
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- University of California Observatories , 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA
- Elena Manjavacas
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- AURA for the European Space Agency (ESA) , ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21218 USA
- Sebastian Marino
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- University of Exeter , Astrophysics Group, Physics Building, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK
- Mark S. Marley
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- Dept. of Planetary Sciences; Lunar & Planetary Laboratory; Univ. of Arizona ; Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Christian Marois
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- National Research Council of Canada , Canada
- Raquel A. Martinez
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; [email protected]
- Brenda C. Matthews
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- Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Centre, National Research Council of Canada , 5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria, BC V9E 2E7, Canada
- Elisabeth C. Matthews
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Dimitri Mawet
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- Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
- Johan Mazoyer
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- LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL , CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
- Michael W. McElwain
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- NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Stanimir Metchev
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- Western University , Department of Physics & Astronomy and Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
- Brittany E. Miles
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- Steward Observatory and the Department of Astronomy, The University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
- Paul Molliere
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Sarah E. Moran
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- Dept. of Planetary Sciences; Lunar & Planetary Laboratory; Univ. of Arizona ; Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Caroline V. Morley
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , 2515 Speedway Stop C1400, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Sagnick Mukherjee
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California , Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Paulina Palma-Bifani
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- Laboratoire J.-L. Lagrange, Université Cote d’Azur , CNRS, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, 06304 Nice, France
- Eric Pantin
- IRFU/DAp Département D’Astrophysique CE Saclay , Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Polychronis Patapis
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- Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich , Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Simon Petrus
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- Instituto de Física y Astronomía, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso , Av. Gran Bretaña 1111, Valparaíso, Chile; Núcleo Milenio Formacíon Planetaria—NPF, Universidad de Valparaíso , Av. Gran Bretaña 1111, Valparaíso, Chile
- Laurent Pueyo
- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Sascha P. Quanz
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- Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich , Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Andreas Quirrenbach
- Landessternwarte, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg , Königstuhl 12, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Isabel Rebollido
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Jea Adams Redai
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Bin B. Ren
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- Université Grenoble Alpes , Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique (IPAG), F-38000 Grenoble, France
- Emily Rickman
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- European Space Agency (ESA), ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore 21218, MD, USA
- Matthias Samland
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- B. A. Sargent
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Center for Astrophysical Sciences, The William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Joshua E. Schlieder
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- NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Glenn Schneider
- Steward Observatory and the Department of Astronomy, The University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Karl R. Stapelfeldt
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
- Ben J. Sutlieff
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance , Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK; Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
- Motohide Tamura
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- The University of Tokyo , 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Xianyu Tan
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- Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , 520 Shengrong Road, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- Christopher A. Theissen
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- Department of Astronomy \& Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Taichi Uyama
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Arthur Vigan
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- Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France
- Malavika Vasist
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- Space Sciences, Technologies & Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège , Allée du Six Août 19c, B-4000 Sart Tilman, Belgium
- Johanna M. Vos
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- School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin , Dublin 2, Ireland
- Kevin Wagner
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- Steward Observatory and the Department of Astronomy, The University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Jason J. Wang
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- Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University , Evanston, IL 60208, USA
- Kimberly Ward-Duong
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- Department of Astronomy, Smith College , Northampton, MA 01063, USA
- Niall Whiteford
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- Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History , Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA
- Schuyler G. Wolff
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- Steward Observatory and the Department of Astronomy, The University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Kadin Worthen
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Mark C. Wyatt
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- Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge , Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
- Marie Ygouf
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
- Xi Zhang
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz , Santa Cruz, CA, 95064 USA
- Keming Zhang
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- Department of Astronomy, 501 Campbell Hall, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA
- Zhoujian Zhang
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California , Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Yifan Zhou
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- University of Virginia , Department of Astronomy, 530 McCormick Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
- Alice Zurlo
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- Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales , Av. Ejército Libertador 441, Santiago, Chile; Escuela de Ingenieria Industrial, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército Libertador 441, Santiago, Chile; Millennium Nucleus on Young Exoplanets and their Moons (YEMS), Chile
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad21fb
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 963,
no. 1
p. L2
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 ∼9–10 mag at ≳ λ / 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.
Keywords
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Interferometry
- Direct imaging
- High contrast techniques
- Observational astronomy
