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Angular momentum architecture and spin-axis inc...

Angular momentum architecture and spin-axis inclination of β Pic b. Left: The orbital (...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Observed mirror tilt and resulting coronagraphi...

Observed mirror tilt and resulting coronagraphic PSF change. Left: measured ΔWFE (wavefr...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Recovery of the rotation period from synthetic ...

Recovery of the rotation period from synthetic F410M light curves sampled at the observe...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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A comparison of the variability amplitude of β ...

A comparison of the variability amplitude of β Pic b with those observed in brown dwarfs...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Summary of the injection-and-recovery test resu...

Summary of the injection-and-recovery test results for the F210M (left) and F410M (right...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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A flash observed by JWST’s guider at the same t...

A flash observed by JWST’s guider at the same time as the discontinuity in the time-seri...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Detrended light curves of β Pic b in F210M (blu...

Detrended light curves of β Pic b in F210M (blue) and F410M (red) and the best-fitting s...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Comparisons between the nominal method and the ...

Comparisons between the nominal method and the pixel-level PCA method. The two measureme...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Filter selection and observation sequence for t...

Filter selection and observation sequence for the β Pic b monitoring campaign. Top: tran...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Lomb–Scargle periodograms of β Pic b in F210M (...

Lomb–Scargle periodograms of β Pic b in F210M (blue) and F410M (red). Top: periodograms ...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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F210M light curve of the host star. Upper panel...

F210M light curve of the host star. Upper panel: the raw aperture photometry shows stron...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Demonstration of the light-curve correction pro...

Demonstration of the light-curve correction procedure using the F410M data. The top pane...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Centroid shifts relative to the median value of...

Centroid shifts relative to the median value of either rolls in x- and y-directions. The...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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spaceKLIP PSF subtraction yields high S/N detec...

spaceKLIP PSF subtraction yields high S/N detection of β Pic b in the F210M and F410M ba...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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F210M and F410M light curves (the Fi(t) term in...

F210M and F410M light curves (the Fi(t) term in Equation (1)). Light curves measured in ...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Significance of the variability detection demon...

Significance of the variability detection demonstrated by χ2 statistics. We compare the ...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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The aperture positions. Apertures for β Pic b, ...

The aperture positions. Apertures for β Pic b, comparison positions, and validation posi...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Light curves after the PCA model correction in ...

Light curves after the PCA model correction in F210M (left) and F410M (right). The corre...

Yifan Zhou et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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(a) CMD of the 246 UBC 63 members with isochron...

(a) CMD of the 246 UBC 63 members with isochrones of 21 Myr (red) and 562 Myr (blue). (b...

Samrat Biswas et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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(a) The Galactic orbits of UBC 63A (blue) and U...

(a) The Galactic orbits of UBC 63A (blue) and UBC 63B (red) in the Z–RGC plane. Solid an...

Samrat Biswas et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DES...

Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DESI J003.6745–13.5042 observed with MUSE. T...

Emerald Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 286 1

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Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DES...

Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DESI J033.8095–29.1570 observed with MUSE. B...

Emerald Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 286 1

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Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DES...

Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DESI J031.7781–27.4454 observed with MUSE. B...

Emerald Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 286 1

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Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DES...

Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DESI J053.6251–13.1869 observed with MUSE. B...

Emerald Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 286 1

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Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DES...

Top: RGB image of gravitational lens system DESI J043.6663–04.3068 observed with MUSE. B...

Emerald Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 286 1

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