A Preliminary Search for Planets and Exozodiacal Emission Around <i>α</i> Centauri A with JWST/MIRI

Acknowledgements: We thank George Chapman and the JWST/FGS team for their dedicated work in finding and vetting guide stars for this program. The STScI Director’s Office provided strong support for this program. This work was supported in part by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (grant 2139433). Part of this work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004).