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Searching for Planets Orbiting Vega with the James Webb Space Telescope

  • 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

Charles Beichman et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 169 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

(Top) simple RDI subtraction of the F444W images of Vega and Deneb to search for disk emission. Arc-shaped annuli laying between the major Vega diffraction spikes were examined for disk emission as a function of distance from Vega. The dotted box denotes a region used as a background region to measure emission away from the annuli. (Bottom) the blue and orange lines denote emission within the partial annuli as a function of separation from Vega minus the background level in a vertical band at the right side of the image. The feature at ∼10″ is an artifact visible in the image and in the background trace and is due to the edge of the coronagraphic optical mount.

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