Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light-Years from Earth
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...In this context, we note the existence of a handful of planetary-mass objects around intermediate-mass stars (Kalas et al. 2008, Marois et al. 2008) but an apparent dearth of companions around the substellar limit (Janson et al. 2011, Vigan et al. 2012)....
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...Moreover, those companions would provide youthful touchstones that could help facilitate a better understanding of their much older counterparts, including the Fomalhaut and HR 8799 planets that orbit just inside their own remnant debris disk rings (Kalas et al. 2008; Marois et al. 2008, 2010)....
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...Fomalhaut b detected in reflected visble light (Kalas et al. 2008), with an upper mass below 1 MJ (Janson et al. 2012), is located far from the central start at approximately 120 AU....
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