P016
JWST: A New Eye for Planetary Science

Session ID#: 160653

Session Description:
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched flawlessly on December 25th, 2021, and arrived at its halo orbit around L2 after a successful spacecraft deployment. Telescope commissioning is complete and the observatory is already in its third and final stage, instrument commissioning.

Designed to probe the structure and origin of our universe and our place in it, this new facility, equipped with 4 instruments capable of observing in imaging and spectroscopy modes in visible all the way to the mid-infrared (0.6 – 28.8 μm), will also play a major role in understanding a multitude of solar system bodies. JWST will observe small bodies from large main-belt asteroids to distant trans-neptunian objects, all four giant planets, including the first global maps of the ice giants in the mid-infrared, and exoplanets.  
In this session, we will welcome abstracts related to the first analysis of commissioning observations, data collected during the Early Release Science (ERS) programs, Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) and General Observers (GO) program in the field of planetary science. Discussion on the potential of JWST in synergy with other facilities to study our solar system and exoplanets will also be welcome. By the time this session happens, many observations will have been completed, lessons will have been learned and scientists will want to share both their science and expertise.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AAS: American Astronomical Society -
Index Terms:

6205 Asteroids [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6293 Uranus [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6296 Extra-solar planets [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Primary Convener:  Franck Marchis, Unistellar, Marseille, France
Conveners:  Naomi Rowe-Gurney, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom and Bryan Holler, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Bryan Holler, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
First Observations of Titan with the James Webb Space Telescope (1107447)
Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Richard K Achterberg, NASA''s GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Bruno Bezard, Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, Meudon, France, Thomas Cornet, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France, Maël Es-Sayeh, Université de Paris, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, Heidi B Hammel, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Washington, DC, United States, Alexander Hayes, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, United States, Bryan Holler, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, Patrick GJ Irwin, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Emmanuel Lellouch, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France, Manuel Lopez-Puertas, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalusia, Granada, Spain, Stefanie N Milam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sebastien Rodriguez, Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, Naomi Rowe-Gurney, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, Christophe Sotin, University de Nantes, Nantes, France, Nicholas A Teanby, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Elizabeth P Turtle, JHU Applied Physics Lab., Laurel, MD, United States and Robert A West, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Surfaces of Neptune Trojans as Revealed by JWST (1165847)
Larissa Markwardt1, Hsing-Wen Lin2, David Gerdes3, Renu Malhotra4, Fred Adams3 and Kevin Napier3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
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