Brown Dwarfs and Directly Imaged Exoplanets in the Era of JWST - Livestream

The James Webb Space Telescope is a game changer in Astronomy. However the influence that this momentous telescope has varies on each subfield. One area of science that JWST is particularly impactful for is substellar Astrophysics or the study of objects that do not have stable Hydrogen burning. Often called brown dwarfs, sources that do not have enough mass to ignite a core with fusion cool throughout their lives. Their effective temperatures are a fraction of that of the Sun so they are not visible to the naked eye. Instead they give off the majority of their light in the infrared where JWST is optimized.

Brown dwarfs are rich Astrophysical objects that cross in their properties with low mass stars and giant exoplanets. In this webinar I will take you through how and what JWST will be doing scientifically at the crossroads of stars and planets. I’ll focus on a new program that I have accepted as well as several accepted projects by instrument science teams that will revolutionize what we know about atmospheres of worlds beyond our solar system.

Speaker: Jackie Faherty, American Museum of Natural History

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