Searching for Planets Orbiting Vega with the James Webb Space Telescope

Searching for Planets Orbiting Vega with the James Webb Space Telescope

The most prominent of the IRAS debris disk systems, α Lyrae (Vega), at a distance of 7.7 pc, has been observed by both the NIRCam and MIRI instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope. This paper describes NIRCam coronagraphic observations, which have achieved F444W contrast levels of 3 × 10 ^−7 at...

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Main Authors: Charles Beichman, Geoffrey Bryden, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Marie Ygouf, Alexandra Greenbaum, Jarron Leisenring, Andras Gaspar, John Krist, George Rieke, Schuyler Wolff, Kate Su, Klaus Hodapp, Michael Meyer, Doug Kelly, Martha Boyer, Doug Johnstone, Scott Horner, Marcia Rieke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Astronomical Journal
Subjects:
Exoplanets
Coronagraphic imaging
Extrasolar gaseous giant planets
Debris disks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad890d

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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad890d

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