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Searching for Planets around Altair with JWST/NIRcam

  • Authors: Tiffany Meshkat, Charles Beichman, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Geoffrey Bryden, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum, Eric E. Mamajek, Marie Ygouf, Julien Girard, Jarron Leisenring, Aniket Sanghi, Marshall Perrin, Michael Meyer, Laurent Pueyo, William Balmer, András Gáspár, Klaus Hodapp

Tiffany Meshkat et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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Sensitivity achieved in the JWST/NIRCam Altair data, showing deep limits on solar system orbital scales. Left: contrast limits for the first-epoch F444W JWST/NIRCam Altair data. The bump in contrast around 3﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{{\unicode{x02033}}}﹩5 corresponds to the bright star south of Altair, visible in Figure 1. Right: mass limits for the F444W NIRCam data computed using the [M/H] = +0.5 dex metallicity, solar C/O ratio, ﹩\mathrm{log}{K}_{{\rm{zz}}}=7﹩ dex Sonora Flame Skimmer model (J. Mang et al. 2026), showing sensitivities down to 0.7 Saturn mass.

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