Searching for Embedded Protoplanets with the Keck/NIRC2 Vortex Coronagraph: Confirmation of a Core-accretion Planet in the Narrow Gap of the Elias 2-24 Disk

arXiv:2609.23122 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-19 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-19

Updated: 2026-09-19

Journal ref: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2026), 1009, L3

DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae9bb6

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Elias — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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