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A Binary Flux Calibrator Reveals the Scientific Potential of Short-integration JWST MIRI Imaging to Directly Detect Sub-Jupiter Exoplanets

  • Authors: Rachel Bowens-Rubin, Mary Anne Limbach, Alexander Venner, Kyle Franson, Emily K. Pass, Andrew Vanderburg, Kevin B. Stevenson, Logan Pearce, Taylor L. Tobin, Elisabeth Matthews, Aiza Kenzhebekova, Beth Biller, Ben J. Sutlieff, Klaus Subbotina Stephenson

Rachel Bowens-Rubin et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

Common proper-motion verification and source identification. (a) The relative astrometry of the detected source between the Gaia DR3 information and the MIRI detection is consistent with a comoving companion (dotted blue line) over the expected motion of a stationary background object (solid red line). This test confirms the source is gravitationally associated with the primary star with the comoving model preferred by Δχ2 = 5953. (b) An SED fit of the companion was made using the species package incorporating the Gaia DR3 G magnitude (Gaia Collaboration et al. 2023) and the four MIRI photometry points listed in Table 1. The best-fit SED is consistent with a star with a classification between K7V and M0.5V (M. J. Pecaut & E. E. Mamajek 2013).

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