Astrometric accelerations as dynamical beacons: discovery and characterization of HIP 21152 B, the first T-dwarf companion in the Hyades

K Franson, BP Bowler, M Bonavita… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Benchmark brown dwarf companions with well-determined ages and model-independent
masses are powerful tools to test substellar evolutionary models and probe the formation of …

Results from The COPAINS Pilot Survey: four new BDs and a high companion detection rate for accelerating stars

M Bonavita, C Fontanive, R Gratton… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The last decade of direct imaging (DI) searches for sub-stellar companions has uncovered a
widely diverse sample that challenges the current formation models, while highlighting the …

Rotation periods, inclinations, and obliquities of cool stars hosting directly imaged substellar companions: spin–orbit misalignments are common

BP Bowler, QH Tran, Z Zhang, M Morgan… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The orientation between a star's spin axis and a planet's orbital plane provides valuable
information about the system's formation and dynamical history. For non-transiting planets at …

Improved dynamical masses for six brown dwarf companions using Hipparcos and Gaia EDR3

GM Brandt, TJ Dupuy, Y Li, M Chen… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present comprehensive orbital analyses and dynamical masses for the substellar
companions Gl 229 B, Gl 758 B, HD 13724 B, HD 19467 B, HD 33632 Ab, and HD 72946 B …

Retrieving the C and O abundances of HR 7672 AB: a solar-type primary star with a benchmark brown dwarf

J Wang, JR Kolecki, JB Ruffio, JJ Wang… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A benchmark brown dwarf (BD) is a BD whose properties (eg, mass and chemical
composition) are precisely and independently measured. Benchmark BDs are valuable in …

JWST-TST high contrast: achieving direct spectroscopy of faint substellar companions next to bright stars with the NIRSpec integral field unit

JB Ruffio, MD Perrin, KKW Hoch… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The JWST NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) presents a unique opportunity to observe directly
imaged exoplanets from 3 to 5 μm at moderate spectral resolution (R∼ 2700) and thereby …

The Hipparcos–Gaia catalog of accelerations: Gaia EDR3 edition

TD Brandt - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a cross-calibration of Hipparcos and Gaia EDR3 intended to identify
astrometrically accelerating stars and to fit orbits to stars with faint, massive companions …

The Orbital Eccentricities of Directly Imaged Companions Using Observable-based Priors: Implications for Population-level Distributions

CR Do Ó, KK O'Neil, QM Konopacky, T Do… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The eccentricity of a substellar companion is an important tracer of its formation history.
Directly imaged companions often present poorly constrained eccentricities. A recently …

htof: A new open-source tool for analyzing Hipparcos, Gaia, and future astrometric missions

GM Brandt, D Michalik, TD Brandt, Y Li… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present htof, an open-source tool for interpreting and fitting the intermediate astrometric
data (IAD) from both the 1997 and 2007 reductions of Hipparcos, the scanning law of Gaia …

First Observations of the Brown Dwarf HD 19467 B with JWST

AZ Greenbaum, J Llop-Sayson, BWP Lew… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We observed HD 19467 B with JWST's NIRCam in six filters spanning 2.5–4.6 μm with the
long-wavelength bar coronagraph. The brown dwarf HD 19467 B was initially identified …