Shout-out to all my collaborators on this paper who made this possible. Especially @benjaminpope.bsky.social for encouraging me to follow these "odd" data quirks
Shashank Dholakia
Thread on our new paper on arxiv today! We stumbled across a weird sinusoidal systematic that we think appears in every observation from the NIRISS instrument on JWST. We derive a correction and see how much it impacts exoplanet spectra. (1/N) #astro #exoplanets ðŸ”🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2606.11983
We quantify an unusual flux-dependent systematic which is periodic in raw counts in flight data from the James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST/NIRISS), used...