Beautiful Images Show Planets Starting to Form

An international team of astronomers has managed to capture some extraordinarily rare images of planetary systems being born, hundreds of light-years away.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Beautiful Images Show Planets Starting to Form

An international team of astronomers has managed to capture some extraordinarily rare images of planetary systems being born, hundreds of light-years away.

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Technical paper here.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.01594.pdf

“A family portrait of disk inner rims around Herbig Ae/Be stars”

“We provide model-independent reconstructed images of 15 objects selected from the Herbig AeBe survey carried out with PIONIER atthe Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), using the semi-parametric approach for image reconstruction of chromatic objects (SPARCO).”

“millimeter-interferometry and scattered-light imaging cannot access the morphologies of the inner disk regions (located within 5 au around the central star) as they cannot reach a sufficiently high angular re-solving power. … With a baseline of 140 m, such as the longest one currently available at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), and by observing in the near-infrared (1.65μm), a resolution of∼0.3 au can be reached for young stars belonging to the closest star forming regions.”