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1000 posterior draws from the best-fit planetes...

1000 posterior draws from the best-fit planetesimal population. The green lines indicate...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Left: a schematic of the Fomalhaut main belt un...

Left: a schematic of the Fomalhaut main belt under our model. The blue region indicates ...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The posterior distribution of the emcee chain o...

The posterior distribution of the emcee chain of the six parameters fit in our model for...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The posterior distribution of the emcee chain o...

The posterior distribution of the emcee chain of the six parameters fit in our model for...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Minimum impactor radius needed to catastrophica...

Minimum impactor radius needed to catastrophically disrupt a planetesimal with a radius ...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Top: the catastrophic collision rate for target...

Top: the catastrophic collision rate for target planetesimals ≥100 km in radius as a fun...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The total collision rate in the dynamically hot...

The total collision rate in the dynamically hot region that is interior to the observed ...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Top: the cumulative probability of the next col...

Top: the cumulative probability of the next collision event (a hypothetical Fomalhaut cs...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The fraction of the belt mass in each region of...

The fraction of the belt mass in each region of the disk as a function of belt semimajor...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The posterior distribution of the emcee chain o...

The posterior distribution of the emcee chain of the six parameters fit in our model for...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Top: the catastrophic collision rate for target...

Top: the catastrophic collision rate for target planetesimals ≥100 km in radius and a sm...

Arin M. Avsar et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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SPHERE H-band observations of the new planet WI...

SPHERE H-band observations of the new planet WISPIT 2c. Both observation epochs clearly ...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Drift-Phoenix spectral model overlaid with the ...

Drift-Phoenix spectral model overlaid with the K-band spectrum obtained with VLTI/GRAVIT...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Drift-Phoenix model spectrum of the WISPIT 2 c ...

Drift-Phoenix model spectrum of the WISPIT 2 c atmosphere with varying metallicity, at a...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Drift-Phoenix model spectrum of the WISPIT 2 c ...

Drift-Phoenix model spectrum of the WISPIT 2 c atmosphere with varying log g, at a fixed...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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K-band GRAVITY spectra of PDS 70b, HR8799 e (J....

K-band GRAVITY spectra of PDS 70b, HR8799 e (J. Kammerer et al. 2025), and WISPIT 2 c. O...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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RGB image of WISPIT 2 using the existing L- and...

RGB image of WISPIT 2 using the existing L- and K-band data by L. M. Close et al. (2025a...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Sonora-Diamondback luminosity–mass isochrones a...

Sonora-Diamondback luminosity–mass isochrones at varying ages; measured luminosities fro...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Color–magnitude diagram of the WISPIT 2 system,...

Color–magnitude diagram of the WISPIT 2 system, along with confirmed planetary companion...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Fitted stellar SED of WISPIT 2 used for the abs...

Fitted stellar SED of WISPIT 2 used for the absolute flux calibration of the GRAVITY data.

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Left: original L-band detection of CC 1 in L. M...

Left: original L-band detection of CC 1 in L. M. Close et al. (2025a). Middle: new H-ban...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Relative astrometry of WISPIT 2c to the primary...

Relative astrometry of WISPIT 2c to the primary star over time. We give the separation a...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Posterior distributions for WISPIT 2 c from the...

Posterior distributions for WISPIT 2 c from the nested sampling using Drift-Phoenix, wit...

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Exploration of multiple model grids.

Exploration of multiple model grids.

Chloe Lawlor et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Comparison of FriendFinder results obtained usi...

Comparison of FriendFinder results obtained using the Gaia DR3 RV (left) and the M. B. L...

Adam Distler et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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