MIRI MRS Observations of β Pictoris. I. The Inner Dust, the Planet, and the Gas

We present JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS) observations of the β Pictoris system. We detect an infrared excess from the central unresolved point source from 5 to 7.5 μ m which is indicative of dust within the inner ∼7 au of the system. We perform point-spread function (PSF) subtractio...

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Main Authors: Kadin Worthen, Christine H. Chen, David R. Law, Cicero X. Lu, Kielan Hoch, Yiwei Chai, G. C. Sloan, B. A. Sargent, Jens Kammerer, Dean C. Hines, Isabel Rebollido, William Balmer, Marshall D. Perrin, Dan M. Watson, Laurent Pueyo, Julien H. Girard, Carey M. Lisse, Christopher C. Stark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2354