English: An annotated false-color image of the WISPIT 2 system as seen in infrared light (L' bandpass, ~3.7 micron wavelength) by the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) and the L- and M-band InfraRed Camera (LMIRcam). The host star has been subtracted from the center of the image, with the inner lambda/D radius masked. Two bright circumstellar point sources are seen: CC1 - a superjovian protoplanet candidate in the inner disk cavity, and b - a superjovian protoplanet in a more distant gap in the disk. Three protoplanetary disk rings are visible despite self-subtraction from the KLIP-ADI algorithm (Rings 1, 2, and 3 in R. van Capelleveen et al. 2025).
The underlying image is identical to that of Figure 2 of Close, van Capelleveen, Weible et al. 2025, but upsampled and shown with a different colormap and an asinh stretch.
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Annotated thermal-infrared image of the WISPIT 2 protoplanetary system as seen with LBTI/LMIRcam. Credit: Laird Close & Gabriel Weible (University of Arizona)