JWST NIRCam Reveals the Largest Known M-dwarf Debris Disk Around TWA 10 and New Scattered-Light Observations of the TWA 25 Debris Disk

arXiv:2607.22426 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-07-24 · Read on arXiv

Katie A. Crotts, Aarynn L. Carter, Beth Biller, Mark Booth, Rachel Bowens-Rubin, Raphaël Bendahan-West, Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez, Kellen Lawson, Briley L. Lewis, Sebastian Marino, Tim Pearce, Marshall Perrin, Giovanni M. Strampelli, Clémence Fontanive, Aiza Kenzhebekova, Patricia Luppe, Isabel Rebollido, Ben J. Sutlieff, Ellis Bogat, Evelyn L. Bruinsma, Christine H. Chen, Julien H. Girard, Kielan Hoch, Andrew D. James, Rohan Kane, Jarron Leisenring, Emily Rickman, Andy Skemer, Klaus Subbotina Stephenson

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-07-24

Comments: 23 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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• Metallicity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Space Agency — 2× in this paper
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gemini Planet Imager — 1× in this paper
• General Observers — 1× in this paper
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper
• Reference-star Differential Imaging — 1× in this paper
• Spitzer Science Center — 1× in this paper

Sources

• On the HR 4796A circumstellar disk
• Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)

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