We present SCExAO/CHARIS high-contrast imaging/ JHK integral field spectroscopy of \kappa And b , a directly-imaged low-mass companion orbiting a nearby B9V star .
We detect \kappa And b at a high signal-to-noise and extract high precision spectrophotometry using a new forward-modeling algorithm for ( A- ) LOCI complementary to KLIP-FM developed by Pueyo et al .
( 2016 ) . \kappa And b ’ s spectrum best resembles that of a low-gravity L0–L1 dwarf ( L0–L1 \gamma ) .
Its spectrum and luminosity are very well matched by 2MASSJ0141-4633 and several other 12.5–15 M _ { J } free floating members of the 40 Myr -old Tuc-Hor Association , consistent with a system age derived from recent interferometric results for the primary , a companion mass at/near the deuterium-burning limit ( 13 ^ { +12 } _ { -2 } M _ { J } ) , and a companion-to-primary mass ratio characteristic of other directly-imaged planets ( q \sim 0.005 ^ { +0.005 } _ { -0.001 } ) .
We did not unambiguously identify additional , more closely-orbiting companions brighter and more massive than \kappa And b down to \rho \sim 0 \farcs 3 ( 15 au ) .
SCExAO/CHARIS and complementary Keck/NIRC2 astrometric points reveal clockwise orbital motion .
Modeling points towards a likely eccentric orbit : a subset of acceptable orbits include those that are aligned with the star ’ s rotation axis .
However , \kappa And b ’ s semimajor axis is plausibly larger than 75 au and in a region where disk instability could form massive companions .

Deeper \kappa And high-contrast imaging and low-resolution spectroscopy from extreme AO systems like SCExAO/CHARIS and higher resolution spectroscopy from Keck/OSIRIS or , later , IRIS on the Thirty Meter Telescope could help clarify \kappa And b ’ s chemistry and whether its spectrum provides an insight into its formation environment .