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NASA rewards JWST commissioning team
Jun 19, 2024
NASA rewards JWST commissioning team
NASA recently presented the Silver Group Achievement Award to 232 experts worldwide for their contribution to the commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These experts worked around the clock during the six months of commissioning. Their hard work ensured that the final performance of all the instruments exceeded the original specifications. The team includes six Frenchmen, four of which belong the Astrophysics Department at Irfu, CEA Paris-Saclay.
May 15, 2024
Discovery of an exo-Earth with SPECULOOS
Although significantly more common in the Universe, ultra-cool dwarf stars remain poorly understood due to their low luminosity. Consequently, our understanding of their planetary population remains limited, even though they represent a substantial fraction of the planets in our Milky Way. It is in this context that the SPECULOOS program was developed, aiming to explore exoplanets around this type of star.
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Discovery of an exo-Earth with SPECULOOS
Researchers use the James Webb to map the weather on a planet 280 light-years away
May 03, 2024
Researchers use the James Webb to map the weather on a planet 280 light-years away
An international team of researchers, including members from CEA, utilized NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather of the hot gas giant WASP-43 b. Measurements in mid-infrared obtained with the MIRI instrument, combined with 3D climate models and other observations, suggest the presence of thick and dense clouds on the night side, clear skies on the day side, and equatorial winds reaching up to 8,000 km/h, mixing atmospheric gases around the planet.
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Nov 15, 2023
The Webb and its MIRI instrument usher in a new era in the exploration of exoplanet atmospheres!
An international team, led by astrophysicists from CEA, has observed the passage of exoplanet Wasp-107b in front of its star, with the aim of characterizing its atmosphere.
An international team of scientists, led by the Astrophysics Department of the CEA, has observed for the first time the swollen atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-107b in the mid-infrared using the James Webb Space Telescope. While water vapor has indeed been detected, it is accompanied by sulfur dioxide (SO2) and silicate clouds (resembling sand clouds), rather than methane (CH4) as models predicted.
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The Webb and its MIRI instrument usher in a new era in the exploration of exoplanet atmospheres!
The infrared camera for the next space telescope ready to go
Apr 22, 2010
The infrared camera for the next space telescope ready to go
Delivery of the Flight Model for a launch planned to take place in 2014
The Astrophysics Department of CEA-Irfu, which has scientific and technical responsibility for the MIRIM imager (Mid Infrared Imager) on the MIRI spectro-imager, one of the major instruments of the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has just delivered the final model of the imager to the Appleton Rutherford laboratory in England, who will carry out the final test before the delivering it for integration into the JWST at the start of 2011 [1].
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