Looking for faint companions
eso_eso0728a June 19th, 2007
Credit: ESO
The left side shows a raw image, while the right side shows the result after the newly developed technique was applied. Thanks to this technique it is possible to study the faint AB Doradus C (about 100 times fainter than its host), once the contamination from the brighter AB Doradus A and the artefacts due to atmospheric turbulence are subtracted. AB Doradus is the closest faint companion ever detected by imaging.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0728a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0728a
- Subject Category
- B.3.7.1
- Subject Name
- AB Doradus, AB Doradus C
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2007-06-19T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0728a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/140/1/119/fulltext
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- SINFONI, SINFONI
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor, Pseudocolor
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, H
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 3521.0, 1965.0
- 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
- eso0728a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0728a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-20T11:30:32+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
