Exploring free floating planetary mass objects with the James Webb Space telescope

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• 2026

  The age sequence of young clusters in Perseus: estimating ages from mass distributions

  Pavlidou, T., Scholz, A. & Muzic, K., 1 Mar 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546, 3, 12 p., stag160.

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  • Mass Distribution 100%
  • Monte Carlo Simulation 100%
  • Monte Carlo Method 100%
  • Star Formation 33%
  • Initial Mass Function 33%

• 2025

  Detection of hydrocarbons in the disk around an actively-accreting planetary-mass object

  Flagg, L., Scholz, A., Almendros-Abad, V., Jayawardhana, R., Damian, B., Mužić, K., Natta, A., Pinilla, P. & Testi, L., 20 Jun 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 986, 2, 6 p., 200.

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  • Low-Mass Star 100%
  • Ethylene 100%
  • Methane 100%
  • Planetary Mass 100%
  • Emissions 100%

• Discovery of an accretion burst in a free-floating planetary-mass object

  Almendros-Abad, V., Scholz, A., Damian, B., Jayawardhana, R., Bayo, A., Flagg, L., Mužić, K., Natta, A., Pinilla, P. & Testi, L., 10 Oct 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 992, 1, 7 p., L2.

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  • Planetary Mass 100%
  • Emissions 100%
  • Line Spectra 50%
  • H Line 50%
  • James Webb Space Telescope 50%

• Disks around young free-floating planetary-mass objects: ultradeep Spitzer imaging of IC348

  Seo, H. H. & Scholz, A., 1 Mar 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537, 3, p. 2579-2585 7 p.

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  • Planetary Mass 100%
  • Brown Dwarf 33%
  • Stellar Classification 16%
  • Low-Mass Star 16%
  • Extrasolar Gas Giants 16%

• Spectroscopy of free-floating planetary-mass objects and their disks with JWST

  Damian, B., Scholz, A., Jayawardhana, R., Almendros-Abad, V., Flagg, L., Mužić, K., Natta, A., Pinilla, P. & Testi, L., 1 Aug 2025, In: Astronomical Journal. 170, 2, 11 p., 127.

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  • Planetary Mass 100%
  • Photosphere 40%
  • Stellar Classification 20%
  • Brown Dwarf 20%
  • Infrared Excess 20%

• The substellar population in Corona Australis

  Mužić, K., Almendros-Abad, V., Baptista, A., Scholz, A., Capela, D., Pearson, S., Damian, B., doBrito-DoVale, A., Rom, T. & Jayawardhana, R., Sept 2025, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 701, 13 p., A147.

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  • Brown Dwarf 100%
  • Initial Mass Function 71%
  • Star Forming Regions 42%
  • Stellar Mass 14%
  • Stellar Classification 14%

• 2024

  The JWST/NIRISS deep spectroscopic survey for young brown dwarfs and free-floating planets

  Langeveld, A. B., Scholz, A., Mužić, K., Jayawardhana, R., Capela, D., Albert, L., Doyon, R., Flagg, L., de Furio, M., Johnstone, D., Lafrèniere, D. & Meyer, M., Oct 2024, In: Astronomical Journal. 168, 4, 22 p., 179.

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  • Brown Dwarf 100%
  • Spectrographs 100%
  • Near Infrared 100%
  • Planetary Mass 100%
  • Stellar Classification 75%

• Variability in SSTc2d J163134.1-240100, a brown dwarf with quasi-spherical mass loss

  Scholz, A., Muzic, K., Almendros-Abad, V., Natta, A., Ruiz-Rodriguez, D., Cieza, L. A. & Rodriguez-Lopez, C., 24 Apr 2024, In: Open Journal of Astrophysics. 7, 9 p., 116970.

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  • Brown Dwarf 100%
  • Deuterium 100%
  • Light Curve 50%
  • Stellar Classification 50%
  • Extremely High Frequency 50%