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JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects. IV. Detailed Imaging of the Protoplanetary Disk around TW Hya

  • Authors: Yu-Chia Lin, Jarron Leisenring, Schuyler G. Wolff, Justin Hom, Kellen Lawson, Ewan S. Douglas, George Rieke, Gabriele Cugno, John Debes, Ruobing Dong, Doug Johnstone, Camryn Mullin, Taylor L. Tobin, Kevin R. Wagner, Thomas Greene, Michael R. Meyer, Marcia Rieke

Yu-Chia Lin et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Methodology for the geometric fitting of the disk. Panel (a) shows the diagnostic plot establishing the empirical variance model. The relationship between ﹩{{\rm{log}}}_{10}﹩(Variance) and ﹩{{\rm{log}}}_{10}﹩(Mean Intensity) is well described by a second-order polynomial (red line, R2 = 0.98), which accounts for the nonlinear combination of statistical noise and unresolved astrophysical structure. Panel (b) visualizes the annuli used in the fitting process (orange ellipses) overlaid on the simulated inclined disk data. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm seeks the geometric parameters—center (x0y0), inclination, and PA—that minimize the observed brightness variance within these elliptical annuli, weighted by the model established in panel (a).

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