Combined SPHERE and ALMA image of material orbiting V960 Mon

Eso_eso2312a_1024

eso_eso2312a July 25th, 2023

Credit: ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Weber et al.

At the centre of this image is the young star V960 Mon, located over 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Dusty material with potential to form planets surrounds the star.  Observations obtained using the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s VLT, represented in yellow in this image, show that the dusty material orbiting the young star is assembling together in a series of intricate spiral arms extending to distances greater than the entire Solar System.  Meanwhile, the blue regions represent data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner. The ALMA data peers deeper into the structure of the spiral arms, revealing large dusty clumps that could contract and collapse to form giant planets roughly the size of Jupiter via a process known as “gravitational instability”.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2312a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
V960 Mon
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk > Protoplanetary
Eso_eso2312a_128
 

Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 6h 59m 31.6s
DEC = -4° 5’ 27.8”
Orientation
North is up
Field of View
0.1 x 0.1 arcminutes
Constellation
Monoceros

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue ALMA (Band 6) Millimeter (None) 1.3 mm
Orange VLT (SPHERE) Infrared (H) 1.6 µm
Spectrum_ir1
Blue
Orange
Eso_eso2312a_1280
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ID
eso2312a
Subject Category
B.3.7.2.1  
Subject Name
V960 Mon
Credits
ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Weber et al.
Release Date
2023-07-25T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2312a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Very Large Telescope
Instrument
Band 6, SPHERE
Color Assignment
Blue, Orange
Band
Millimeter, Infrared
Bandpass
None, H
Central Wavelength
1300000, 1625
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
None, None
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
104.881633051, -4.09105631245
Reference Dimension
978.0, 978.0
Reference Pixel
489.0, 489.0
Scale
-1.69436453545e-06, 1.69436453545e-06
Rotation
-0
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
https://www.eso.org
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
None
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso2312a
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2312a.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2023-06-28T11:00:43+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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