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Caption: Figure 3.
JWST/NIRCam F444W image with color stretch optimized to emphasize the planets. While planets b, c, and d stand out in the initial postprocessed image (left), planet e is not readily apparent. This is partly due to its relative faintness (86% of its light is blocked by the coronagraph mask), but also because of contamination from the complex PSFs of the other planets (see Figures 4 and 5 for examples of PSFs). Once the PSFs of b, c, and d are subtracted from the image (right), planet e becomes prominent. The white dashed ellipse in each frame corresponds to an orbital radius of 100 au, inclined to match the disk orientation.
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