Thank you! It was a fun journey to get here. Soon we'll be able to see if this carbon richness is the norm for these objects or not!

Yes! Came out this morning -- the first chemistry study of a disk around a planetary-mass companion! Truly only possible with the power of MIRI MRS: angular resolution 🤝 spectral resolution

What an incredible thing to do every week! And yay for hitting such a high number!

We detect benzene (C6H6), which comes in the form of this fun ring!

Thanks, Linn!! It still blows my mind too...!

This started as preparation for Cycle 4 -- and made it possible for those proposals to succeed! Then it was just two people who were so excited to dig into the data and see where it led. I'm immensely proud of this work, grateful to have done this with Gabriele, and so excited for the data to come!✨

This C-rich chemistry is in stark contrast with the disk around the host star, CT Cha A, where we only find O-bearing molecules. CT Cha A fits in well with other Sun-like objects, while CT Cha b extends disk chemistry trends down to the planetary-mass regime.

Or permanent jobs 😬