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Imágenes de archivo de NICMOS de cinco discos de escombros

These images reveal five planetary debris disks uncovered in images around young stars that astronomers retrieved from the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer observed the disks in near-infrared ligh...

Fecha
Jan 1, 2014
Misión
Hubble Space Telescope
ID de archivo
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These images reveal five planetary debris disks uncovered in images around young stars that astronomers retrieved from the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer observed the disks in near-infrared light between 1999 and 2007. Astronomers used a coronagraph to block out the bright light from each star so they could analyze the faint, reflected light off dust particles in the disks. Recently applied new image processing techniques allowed astronomers to subtract excess starlight that escaped beyond the coronagraph to clearly reveal the debris disks. The disks around HD 30447, HD 35841, and HD 141943 appear edge-on; the other two appear inclined. The Sun-like star HD 141943 is about the same age as our Sun when terrestrial planets like Earth were forming from material in its debris disk.

Credits

NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)

Detalles de la imagen

About The Object
Object NameHD 141943, HD 191089, HD 202917, HD 30447, HD 35841
Object DescriptionCircumstellar Disks
About The Data
Data DescriptionThe NICMOS data for these images are from the HST proposals: Object Name: HD 141943 R.A.: 15h 53m 27s.30 Dec.: -42° 16' 0".72 Proposals: (PI: D. Hines, STScI) and (PI: S. Metchev, Stonybrook U.) Filters: F110W and F160W Exposure Date: 2006, 2007 Object Name: HD 191089 R.A.: 20h 9m 5s.21 Dec.: -26° 13' 26".53 Proposals: (PI: D. Hines, STScI) and (PI: S. Metchev, Stonybrook U.) Filter: F110W Exposure Date: 2007 Object Name: HD 202917 R.A.: 21h 20m 49s.93 Dec.: -53° 2' 2".29 Proposals: (PI: D. Hines, STScI), (PI: S. Metchev, Stonybrook U.), and (PI: E. Becklin, UCLA ) Filters: F110W and F160W Exposure Date: 1999, 2007 Object Name: HD 30447 R.A.: 4h 46m 49s.53 Dec.: -26° 18' 8".84 Proposal: (PI: G. Schneider, U. of Arizona) Filter: F110W Exposure Date: 2005 Object Name: HD 35841 R.A.: 5h 26m 36s.59 Dec.: -22° 29' 23".72 Proposal: (PI: G. Schneider, U. of Arizona) Filter: F110W Exposure Date: 2005
InstrumentHST>NICMOS
FiltersF110W and F160W

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