Binary L dwarf Kelu-1 (31 July 2005)

Esahubble_opo0901d_1024

esahubble_opo0901d January 5th, 2009

Credit: NASA, ESA and M. Stumpf (MPIA)

This pixelated image taken by the ESO/NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows the system Kelu-1. This star systems consists of two brown dwarfs and is located in the constellation of Hydra, 61 light years away. It is among the first brown dwarf dicovered, which were not part of a system containing a later-than-M-type star. Observations made between 2005 and 2008 by a german team of astronomers who used data from Hubble, the Very Large Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope suggest, that the system even contains a third, so far undetected, component.

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Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0901d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Kelu-1
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Type > Brown Dwarf
Star > Grouping > Binary

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale GALEX (NICMOS) Infrared (Near-IR) -
Esahubble_opo0901d_1280
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ID
opo0901d
Subject Category
B.3.2.3   B.3.6.1  
Subject Name
Kelu-1
Credits
NASA, ESA and M. Stumpf (MPIA)
Release Date
2009-01-05T18:20:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0901d/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Distance in light years from: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508082
Facility
GALEX
Instrument
NICMOS
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
Near-IR
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo0901d
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0901d.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2008-12-19T11:40:34-05:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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