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Direct Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Young Embedded Protoplanet WISPIT 2c

  • Authors: Chloe Lawlor, Richelle F. van Capelleveen, Guillaume Bourdarot, Christian Ginski, Matthew A. Kenworthy, Tomas Stolker, Laird Close, Alexander J. Bohn, Frank Eisenhauer, Paulo Garcia, Sebastian F. Hönig, Jens Kammerer, Laura Kreidberg, Sylvestre Lacour, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin, Eric Mamajek, Mathias Nowak, Thibaut Paumard, Christian Straubmeier, Nienke van der Marel

Chloe Lawlor et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Color–magnitude diagram of the WISPIT 2 system, along with confirmed planetary companions and field brown dwarfs of various spectral types. The teal and cyan tracks show 5.1 Myr Sonora-Bobcat (cloud free) and Sonora-Diamondback (hybrid clouds; sedimentation efficiency fsed = 2) evolutionary isochrones, respectively.

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