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JWST/NIRCam Coronagraphy of the Young Planet-hosting Debris Disk AU Microscopii

Final F444W MCRDI products following the injection of two low-mass companions into observations of AU Mic (see Section 5.1). The images are oriented such that the disk major axis is aligned with the horizontal axis. Left: the final MCRDI image, which has been multiplied by the projected radial separation in units of arcsec to improve the visualization. Right: the SNRE map for the residuals between the MCRDI image and the MCRDI disk model. For both panels, the location of each injected companion is indicated by a white caret marker and annotation. Major and minor axis ticks delineate separation in increments of 1'' and 0. ''5 respectively. A linear color stretch is used for both images.