Disc around the young star HD 163296 (observations)
eso_ann1058a September 9th, 2010
Credit: ESO/S. Renard
New research carried out using ESO telescopes has, for the first time, allowed astronomers to reconstruct a detailed picture of the disc of matter around a young star. Stéphanie Renard of the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Grenoble and colleagues used the ESO VLT Interferometer to probe the secrets of the inner part of the disc around the star HD 163296. This image shows the reconstruction of images in two parts of the near-infrared spectrum (H and K). The green ellipse traces the location of the newly discovered ring inside which the dust was found. The white ellipse represents the orbit of the Earth around the Sun placed in this system in order to show the scale of the picture and the extraordinarily fine details that are revealed in this image.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann1058a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- ann1058a
- Subject Category
- B.3.7.2
- Subject Name
- HD 163296
- Credits
- ESO/S. Renard
- Release Date
- 2010-09-09T09:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann1058a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope Interferometer, Very Large Telescope Interferometer
- Instrument
- AMBER, AMBER
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, H
- Central Wavelength
- 2300, 1650
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 1000.0, 1000.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- 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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- ann1058a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/ann1058a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-09-03T11:45:24+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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