Aniket Sanghi
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Astronomy and Physics Texas Exes🤘– NSF Graduate Fellow @ Caltech – Exoplanet Hunter 🪐
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Jenna Ahart
3 months ago
New from Nature: “I had to take a moment of silence to appreciate what I was seeing.” Astronomers reveal what could be the first ever image of a planet in its star’s habitable zone—and in the same star system as Avatar, no less
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Alien planet glimpsed in star's 'habitable zone'
A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02549-z
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Phil Plait
3 months ago
WHOA. Astronomers may have found a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the closest sun-like star to the Sun! It's a binary system, too, so if this is confirmed it'll be an AMAZING discovery!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-planet-f...
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A planet for Alpha Centauri A?
JWST spots what might be a Jupiter-sized world around the nearest Sun-like star
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-planet-for-alpha-centauri-a-2f030ca9ae7bcd82
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ESA Space Science
3 months ago
New kid on the block 🪐 Webb has found the strongest evidence yet of a gas giant around Alpha Centauri A! If confirmed, it would be the nearest planet that orbits in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. Read more 👉
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Space Telescope Science Institute
3 months ago
The Alpha Centauri System ⭐ ⭐, the closest star system to our own solar system, system contains two Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, and a faint red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri, the only star of the system confirmed to host three confirmed planets. (1/7) 🧵 🔭 🧪
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Corey S. Powell
3 months ago
After years of searching, astronomers have found strong evidence of a planet around Alpha Centauri, a near-twin of our Sun in the nearest neighboring star system. This would also be the closest exoplanet ever observed directly. 🧪🔭
webbtelescope.org/contents/new...
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Space Telescope Science Institute
3 months ago
NEWS: Will you be my neighbor?
#NASAWebb
has found strong evidence of a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the stellar system closest to our own sun:
webbtelescope.pub/4oyLiQa
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It was a truly heroic effort by the team at STScI to see this series of programs through. Check out Sarah’s thread for why this has been one of the most challenging observations for JWST!
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Check out our short update on JWST mid-infrared observations of the closest Sun-like star, Alpha Centauri A!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
6 months ago
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I experiment with using a large archival PSF library to improve the performance of Reference Star Differential Imaging in Keck/NIRC2 observations! I have provided raw images, PSF-subtracted images, and contrast curves for ~4 years worth of survey observations on Zenodo.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.14268
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Efficiently Searching for Close-in Companions around Young M...
We present Super-RDI, a unique framework for the application of reference star differential imaging (RDI) to Keck/NIRC2 high-contrast imaging observations with the vortex coronagraph. Super-RDI...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14268
about 1 year ago
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Submitted my first-ever proposal as PI in the first week of grad school!! Feeling super proud and excited!🥳🤞✅
about 2 years ago
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First Post!🚨 Paper Day! 🥳
arxiv.org/abs/2309.03082
✅New brown dwarfs, spectra, and parallaxes ✅Luminosities, masses, radii, temperatures, and gravities for 1000+ ultracool dwarfs ✅Polynomial relations (see Tables 5 and A1 👀) ✅Comparison to BT-Settl and ATMO 2020 atmospheric models
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The Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. VI. The Fundamental...
We derive the bolometric luminosities ($L_{\mathrm{bol}}$) of 865 field-age and 189 young ultracool dwarfs (spectral types M6-T9, including 40 new discoveries presented here) by directly...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03082
about 2 years ago
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