The motions of material in the discs around the young double star HK Tauri
eso_eso1423e July 30th, 2014
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
This picture shows the key velocity data taken with ALMA that helped the astronomers determine that the discs in HK Tauri were misaligned. The red areas represent material moving away from Earth and the blue indicates material moving toward us.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1423e/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1423e
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.1
- Subject Name
- HK Tauri
- Credits
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
- Release Date
- 2014-07-30T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1423e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 67.9612855288, 24.4060998732
- Reference Dimension
- 2400.0, 1350.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2116.74558985, 1238.31275445
- Scale
- -1.44567965933e-06, 1.44567965933e-06
- Rotation
- -92.707982187359988
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- 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
- eso1423e
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1423e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2014-07-25T18:06:55-07:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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