Astro2020 sience white paper: Direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope

Charles Beichman (1) , David Barrado (2) , Ruslan Belikov (3) , Beth Biller (4) , Antony Boccaletti (5) , Adam Burrows (6) , Camilla Danielski (7) , Rene Doyon (8) , Jonathan Fortney (9) , Andras Gaspar (10) , Alistair Glasse (11) , Thomas P Greene (12) , Sasha Hinkley (13) , Renyu Hu (14) , Tiffany Kataria (15) , John Krist (14) , David Lafrenière (16) , Pierre-Olivier Lagage (7) , Jonathan Lunine (17) , Mark Marley (12) , Dimitri Mawet (18) , Tiffany Meshkat (19) , Michael Meyer (20) , Rebecca Oppenheimer (21) , Michael Perrin (22) , Laurent Pueyo (22) , Michael Ressler (14) , George Rieke (10) , Marcia Rieke (10) , Thomas Roellig (12) , Eugene Serabyn (14) , Joshua Schlieder (23) , Andy Skemer (9) , Rémi Soummer (22) , Kate Su (10) , Pascal Tremblin (24) , Olivia Venot (25) , Marie Ygouf (19)

1 NExScI - NASA ExoPlanet Science Institute
2 ESAC - European Space Astronomy Centre
3 Ames Laboratory [Ames, USA]
4 Edin. - University of Edinburgh
5 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics
6 Princeton University
7 AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
8 iREX - Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanètes
9 UC Santa Cruz - University of California [Santa Cruz]
10 LPL - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [University of Arizona]
11 UK ATC - UK Astronomy Technology Centre
12 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center
13 School of Physics and Astronomy [Exeter]
14 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
15 SBU - Stony Brook University [SUNY]
16 UdeM - Université de Montréal
17 LPL - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson]
18 Caltech Department of Astronomy [Pasadena]
19 IPAC - Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
20 UMFlint - University of Michigan [Flint]
21 AMNH - American Museum of Natural History [New York, USA] = Musée américain d'histoire naturelle [New York, USA]
22 STSci - Space Telescope Science Institute
23 MPIA - Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
24 MDLS - Maison de la Simulation
25 LISA (UMR_7583) - Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques

Coronagraphic imaging and direct spectroscopy of young planets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will add new insights into our understanding of the formation and evolution of exoplanets. This White Paper focuses on how JWST will add to our knowledge of young giant planets located at orbits beyond a few AU for the closest stars and a few 10s of AU for more distant ones. Companion White Papers concentrate on the study of mature planets via transit spectroscopy (White Paper by Greene et al.) and on the connection between exoplanets and planets within our own solar system (White Paper by Lunine et al.)

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Charles Beichman, David Barrado, Ruslan Belikov, Beth Biller, Antony Boccaletti, et al.. Astro2020 sience white paper: Direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope. 2019. ⟨hal-02359149⟩