The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning / McGill University

Published purpose

Following the JWST Cycle 2 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on July 6, 2023, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data. The project will use spectroscopic time-series monitoring to investigate the condensate clouds of the isolated exoplanet analog SIMP J0136+09. Observing one full rotation each with NIRSPec and MIRI instruments will provide data for the most detailed phase-resolved atmospheric investigation of any extrasolar atmosphere to date. The results of this program will provide crucial insight on the importance of time-varying atmospheric processes for brown dwarfs, isolated planetary-mass objects and bona fide directly imaged exoplanets.