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Raphaël Bendahan-West
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PhD Student <br> Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Exeter, UK
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I am a PhD student working with Sebastian Marino and Sasha Hinkley in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Exeter. My PhD focuses on explaining the diverse morphologies observed in debris discs by testing planet-disc interaction theories, evaluating the role of planets in disc truncation through direct imaging searches. These discoveries will ultimately shed light on debris disc and planet formation theories.
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During my Master's, I developed a pipeline to detect exocomet transits using spectroscopic data. By systematically searching the entire HARPS archive, I quantified the occurrence rate of these transits, which manifest as transient absorption features in the ionized calcium doublet. For those interested in exocomets, I recommend the recent review series <a href="https://link.springer.com/collections/iajhcaigfj" target="_blank">"Exocomets: Bridging our Understanding of Minor Bodies in Solar and Exoplanetary Systems"</a>, to which I contributed as an author.
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Astronomy is an inherently international field, and my own path reflects that. Born in Japan and raised in Antibes in the south of France, I went on to complete my undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Warwick, including a year abroad at the University of Waterloo in Canada. These experiences have shaped how I approach research and are reflected in the international collaborations I have built so far.
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<b style="color: #e1e151f0;">Research Interests:</b> <br>
Debris disc morphology <br>
Exoplanet detection with direct imaging <br>
Planet-disc interactions <br>
Planet/debris disc formation <br>
Exocomet transit detection
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<b style="color: #e1e151f0;">Other Interests:</b><br>
Outside of astronomy, I have been playing basketball competitively for a large percentage of my life in national/regional/university leagues. Additionally, during my BSc and MSc, I was a Warwick Sport Activator, encouraging other students to be more active, by running casual, inclusive and beginner friendly basketball sessions.<br>
My growing experience in data manipulation has strengthened my interest in sport data science, especially linked to basketball. If this sounds fun to you, I would recommend testing out new analytic tools more specialised towards sports analytics (<a href="https://www.coursera.org/specializations/sports-analytics#courses" target="_blank">course link</a>).
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<p class="r-count" id="r-count"><strong id="r-n">4</strong> papers</p>
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<span class="r-year-badge">2026</span>
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<span class="r-tag r-tag-comet">Exocomets</span>
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<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026arXiv260319978K/abstract" target="_blank">
Observations of Exocomets
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<p class="r-venue">Korth, Norazman, <strong>Bendahan-West</strong> et al. — Space Science Reviews, 2026</p>
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We present an up-to-date review of observational techniques for detecting exocomets, the small-body analogues of Solar System comets in other planetary systems. Starting from the well-studied case of β Pictoris, we discuss photometric transit searches, which exploit the asymmetric light curves produced by cometary dust tails, and spectroscopic methods that track time-variable gas absorption features. We summarise progress in both individual system studies and large-scale surveys, and highlight persistent open questions around physical properties, occurrence rates, and the degree of similarity to Solar System comets. This chapter is part of a collection on exocomet science published in <em>Space Science Reviews</em>, available <a href="https://link.springer.com/collections/iajhcaigfj">here</a>.
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<span class="r-year-badge">2026</span>
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<span class="r-tag r-tag-disc">Debris Discs</span>
<span class="r-tag r-tag-planets">Planets</span>
<span class="r-tag r-tag-first">First Author</span>
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<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRAS.tmp.2129B/abstract" target="_blank">
JWST/MIRI coronagraphic search for planets in systems with gapped exoKuiper belts and proper-motion anomalies
</a>
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<p class="r-venue"><strong>Bendahan-West</strong> et al. — MNRAS, 2026</p>
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<!-- Using JWST/MIRI coronagraphic observations from programme GO 1668, we search for planets sculpting
gaps in three exoKuiper belts: HD 92945, HD 107146, and HD 206893. We reduce MIRI 11.4 µm data
with spaceKLIP, build detection probability maps with MADYS, and overlay proper motion anomaly
constraints to characterise the planetary architectures driving these rare disc structures. -->
We use JWST/MIRI coronagraphic observations as part of program GO 1668 to search for planets sculpting gaps in three exoKuiper belts: HD92945, HD107146, and HD206893. The observed gapped structures suggest the presence of unseen planets carving a gap through direct clearing or resonant planet-disc interactions. We reduce MIRI coronagraphic 11.4µm observations using <a href="https://spaceklip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" target="_blank">spaceKLIP</a>, and compare the images with archival data to investigate the nature of the detected sources. We build detection probability maps (DPMs) using <a href="https://madys.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contrast_curves.html#creation-of-a-detectionmap-instance" target="_blank">MADYS</a>, which quantifies the detection probability of a planet at a given deprojected separation from the JWST contrast curves. We describe new regions that can be overplotted onto the DPMs such as proper motion anomaly constraints, which ultimately enable us to constrain the planetary architecture responsible for the disc structures.
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<span class="r-year-badge">2026</span>
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<span class="r-tag r-tag-disc">Debris Discs</span>
<span class="r-tag r-tag-planets">Planets</span>
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<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026A%26A...705A.199M/abstract" target="_blank">
ARKS V: Comparison between scattered light and thermal emission
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<p class="r-venue">Milli, Olofsson, Bonduelle, <strong>Bendahan-West</strong> et al. — A&A, 2026</p>
<p class="r-abstract">
As part of the ARKS large programme, we present a comprehensive multi-wavelength analysis of debris-disc dust grain distributions. We compare scattered-light and thermal emission observations for 15 of 24 debris discs. In six systems, we find striking grain-size segregation, with micron-sized particles extending significantly beyond millimetre grains. These spatial offsets are strongly associated with residual CO gas. Where gas is absent, radiation pressure alone explains the displacement, as expected. We show that gas preferentially displaces small grains, making it a key dynamical driver of debris-disc structure alongside planetary interactions.
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<span class="r-year-badge">2026</span>
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<span class="r-tag r-tag-disc">Debris Discs</span>
<span class="r-tag r-tag-collab">Collaborator</span>
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<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026A%26A...705A.195M/abstract" target="_blank">
ARKS I: Motivation, sample, data reduction, and results overview
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<p class="r-venue">Marino et al. — A&A, 2026</p>
<p class="r-abstract">
We present ARKS (the ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures), the first ALMA large programme dedicated to debris discs, targeting 24 exoKuiper belts at high angular resolution to characterise their radial and vertical structure, asymmetries, and gas content. The survey uncovers a remarkable diversity of substructures: up to a third of belts show multiple dusty rings, asymmetric features are widespread, and vertical profiles vary significantly across the sample. In gas-rich systems, CO is not always collocated with the dust, and in at least one case non-Keplerian kinematics point to a pressure-driven vortex trapping dust in an arc. Together, these results establish the statistical foundation needed to distinguish between planetary sculpting, collisional evolution, and gas-driven processes in the outer regions of planetary systems.
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<span class="r-year-badge">2025</span>
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<span class="r-tag r-tag-disc">Debris Discs</span>
<span class="r-tag r-tag-planets">Planets</span>
<span class="r-tag r-tag-collab">Collaborator</span>
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<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv251107561L/abstract" target="_blank">
JWST/NIRCam observations of HD 92945 debris disk: An asymmetric disk with a gap
</a>
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<p class="r-venue">Lazzoni, <strong>Bendahan-West</strong> et al. — A&A, 2025</p>
<p class="r-abstract">
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broad inclined structure with a gap at ~80 au and a prominent brightness asymmetry in the
southwestern inner ring. Contrast limits exclude Jupiter-mass planets beyond 20-40 au, pointing
to sub-Jupiter planets interior to 20 au sculpting the disc through secular resonances. -->
We present the first JWST/NIRCam coronagraphic observations of the HD 92945 debris disc at 2 and 4.4 μm. The disc shows a broad, inclined structure with a gap at ~80 au and a prominent brightness asymmetry in the southwestern inner ring—consistent across multiple wavelengths and epochs, including previous ALMA and HST observations. While no planetary companions are directly detected, our contrast limits exclude Jupiter-mass planets beyond 20-40 au and rule out a single distant planet as the source of Gaia's astrometric signal. Combined with the observed disc features, our results support a scenario where one or more sub-Jupiter planets interior to 20 au dynamically sculpt the disc through secular resonances, explaining the gap, asymmetry, and astrometric acceleration.
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<span class="r-year-badge">2025</span>
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<span class="r-tag r-tag-disc">Debris Discs</span>
<span class="r-tag r-tag-planets">Planets</span>
<span class="r-tag r-tag-collab">Collaborator</span>
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<p class="r-title">
<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025ApJ...987L..41C/abstract" target="_blank">
Follow-up Exploration of the TWA 7 Planet─Disk System with JWST NIRCam
</a>
</p>
<p class="r-venue">Crotts et al. — ApJ, 2025</p>
<p class="r-abstract">
We present JWST/NIRCam F200W and F444W observations of TWA 7, targeting a planet candidate previously identified with JWST/MIRI at 11 μm within a gap in the system's debris disc. A coincident point source detected in F444W confirms the MIRI candidate, making TWA 7 b the first planet directly detected within a debris disc gap and establishing a rare direct link between disc sculpting and planetary presence. Our imaging also recovers disc substructures hinted at in earlier scattered-light observations, including an underdensity at the planet's orbital location and evidence for co-orbiting material, similar to Jupiter's Trojan population.
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<div class="r-card" data-topic="exocomet" data-author="first-author" data-year="2025">
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<span class="r-year-badge">2025</span>
<div class="r-tags">
<span class="r-tag r-tag-comet">Exocomets</span>
<span class="r-tag r-tag-first">First Author</span>
</div>
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<p class="r-title">
<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRAS.537..229B/abstract" target="_blank">
Quantifying spectroscopic Ca II exocomet transit occurrence in two decades of HARPS data
</a>
</p>
<p class="r-venue"><strong>Bendahan-West</strong> et al. — MNRAS, 2025</p>
<p class="r-abstract">
<!-- We built a pipeline to search the full HARPS archive for exocomet transits, overcoming earlier
sample-selection biases with a large, diverse stellar sample. Exocomets are identified via
transient absorption in the ionised calcium doublet; we estimate the transit occurrence rate
across the archive and determine trends in exocomet host star properties. -->
As part of my Master's, we developed a pipeline that searches for signs of exocomet transits in spectroscopy data. Being guided by the multiple exocomet transits detected around the archetypal star Beta Pictoris, exocomets can be identified by transient absorption features in specific atomic species, such as the commonly used ionised Calcium doublet. We aimed to overcome previous sample selection biases, and use the entire HARPS archive to build a large and diverse sample of stars. Ultimately, we estimate the occurrence rate of exocomet transits in HARPS and determined any trends in exocomet host stars.
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<img src="images/asset.png" alt="Spectroscopic Ca II exocomet" class="r-figure" />
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<span class="r-tag r-tag-comet">Exocomets</span>
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Self-Organising Map Classification of Stellar Spectra
<span style="font-weight:300; font-size:0.82rem; color:rgba(255,255,255,0.35);"> — Summer Project</span>
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<p class="r-venue"><strong>Bendahan-West</strong> — supervisors: Kennedy, Strøm, Brown</p>
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An unsupervised machine learning approach using Self-Organising Maps (SOMs) to classify stellar
spectra by spectral profile, reducing false positive rates in exocomet transit searches. Stars
sharing similar variability features are grouped together for cleaner identification and
filtering of contaminating signals.
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For my latest research outputs, please see the <a href="#research">Research section</a>.
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PhD of Physics & Astronomy, <i>University of Exeter, UK</i> <br>
MSc by Research in Physics, <i>University of Warwick, UK</i> <br>
BSc in Physics, <i>University of Warwick, UK</i> <br>
BSc Year Abroad: Physics, <i>University of Waterloo, ON, Canada</i>
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<b>PHY1025 - Mathematics Skills:</b> Group seminars <br>
<b>PHY1026 - Mathematics for Physicists:</b> Group seminars <br>
<b>PHY1027 - Practical Physics I:</b> Exoplanet Transit lab demonstrator <br>
<b>PHY1034 - Computational Data Analysis:</b> Python workshop <br>
<b>NSC1002 - Mathematics and Computing: Integrative Tools for Natural Sciences:</b> Python workshop
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<h4>PI / Co-PI Programs</h4>
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<li>[PI: S. Hinkley, <strong>co-PI: R. Bendahan-West</strong>] - JWST/MIRI GO-11225, 40.9 hours, <i>A MIRI search for TWA 7b twins: sub-Jupiter mass planets shaping debris disks</i></li>
<li>[PI: E. Matthews, <strong>dPI: R. Bendahan-West</strong>] - VLT/ERIS 115.283Q, 2 hours, <i>A direct detection of a disk-sculpting giant planet in a system with Hipparcos-Gaia acceleration</i></li>
<li><strong>[PI: R. Bendahan-West]</strong> - ALMA 2024.1.00681.S, 22 hours, <i>Dynamically determining the origin of gas in debris discs</i></li>
<li>[PI: E. Matthews, <strong>dPI: R. Bendahan-West</strong>] - VLT/ERIS 113.26NC, 2 hours, <i>A direct detection of a disk-sculpting giant planet in a system with Hipparcos-Gaia acceleration</i></li>
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<h4>Collaborator Programs</h4>
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<li>[PI: A. Carter] - JWST GO-10764, 68.6 hours, <i>Once More, With Feeling: Establishing a Robust Sample of JWST Exoplanet Discoveries</i></li>
<li>[PI: K. Lawson] - JWST AR-11688, <i>The Wake of Planets: Analyzing Serendipitous Late-type Debris Disk Discoveries from Exoplanet Surveys</i></li>
<li>[PI: K. Franson] - JWST GO-09056, 49 hours, <i>Imaging the Coldest Planets Around the Nearest Accelerating Stars</i></li>
<li>[PI: A. Carter] - JWST GO-05835, 95 hours, <i>Uncharted Worlds: Unveiling Wide-Separation Sub-Jupiters for Future JWST Characterization</i></li>
<li>[PI: B. Biller] - JWST SURVEY-06005, <i>Imaging Young Sub-Jupiter Planets down to Solar-System Scales</i></li>
<li>[PI: A. Carter] - JWST GO-04050, 48 hours, <i>Uncharted Worlds: Towards a Legacy of Direct Imaging of Sub-Jupiter Mass Exoplanets</i></li>
<li>[PI: S. Hinkley] - JWST GO-03989, 34 hours, <i>Spotting the Perturbers: A Coronagraphic Survey of Debris Disk Stars with Proper Motion Anomalies</i></li>
<li>[PI: S. Hinkley] - JWST GO-02538, 25 hours, <i>Using JWST to search for Planetary Sculptors in an ALMA-Selected Sample of Debris Disks</i></li>
<li>[PI: S. Marino] - JWST GO-01668, 17 hours, <i>Searching for low mass planets in debris disk gaps</i></li>
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<h4>Invited talks</h4>
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<li><strong>Science Tea seminar</strong> - <i>Herzberg Astronomy, NRCC, Victoria, Canada, Feb 2026</i></li>
<li><strong>Astro Lunch seminar</strong> - <i>UC Santa Barbara, USA, Feb 2026</i></li>
<li><strong>Exoplanet Seminars</strong> - <i>University of Cambridge, UK, Nov 2024</i></li>
<li><strong>ISSI Workshop, Exocomets</strong> - <i>Bern, CH, Jul 2024</i></li>
<li><strong>ESPF seminar</strong> - <i>STScI, Baltimore, USA, Apr 2024</i></li>
<li><strong>ESPF seminar</strong> - <i>STScI, Baltimore, USA, Dec 2022</i></li>
<li><strong>Debris Disc group</strong> - <i>IoA, Cambridge, UK, Nov 2022</i></li>
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<h4>Conferences talks</h4>
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<li><strong>Spirit of Lyot 6</strong> - <i>Caltech, USA, Feb 2026</i></li>
<li><strong>OWL Exoplanet Summer Program</strong> - <i>UC Santa Cruz, USA, July 2025 (remote)</i></li>
<li><strong>EPSC2024</strong> - <i>Berlin, Germany, Sept 2024</i></li>
<li><strong>UKI Discs</strong> - <i>University of Warwick, UK, Sept 2024</i></li>
<li><strong>Dust Devils: Debris Disks in the Sonoran Desert</strong> - <i>Tucson, USA, Mar 2024</i></li>
<li><strong>Debris Discs: At Home and Abroad</strong> - <i>Jena, Germany, Aug 2022</i></li>
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<li><strong>FIDLE: Formation Introduction au Deep Learning</strong> - <i>CNRS, FR, 2021</i></li>
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Publication list can be found on <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=orcid%3A0009-0000-0303-2145&sort=date+desc" target="_blank">NASA ADS</a>.
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