GRB 990510
eso_eso9926g May 18th, 1999
Credit: Universitaets-Sternwarte Goettingen/FORS Consortium
The object of study is the remnant of a mysterious cosmic explosion far out in space, first detected as a gigantic outburst of gamma rays on May 10. Gamma-Ray Bursters (GRBs) are brief flashes of very energetic radiation — they represent by far the most powerful type of explosion known in the Universe and their afterglow in optical light can be 10 million times brighter than the brightest supernovae. The May 10 event ranks among the brightest one hundred of the over 2500 GRB's detected in the last decade. This is a visual image of the sky field around GRB 990510 (here denoted "OT"), as obtained with the VLT ANTU telescope and FORS1 on May 18 UT during a 20 min exposure in 0.9 arcsec seeing conditions. The reproduction is in false colours to better show differences in intensity. North is up and east is left.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9926g/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso9926g
- Subject Category
- D.6.2.2
- Subject Name
- GRB 990510
- Credits
- Universitaets-Sternwarte Goettingen/FORS Consortium
- Release Date
- 1999-05-18T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9926g/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Redshift distance from: http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=com_article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/full/2008/42/aa10545-08/aa10545-08.html
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- V
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- 1200
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 453.0, 585.0
- 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
- eso9926g
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9926g.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-10-11T09:27:07.719303
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
