Direct Imaging of the Brown Dwarf Companion J1446B (IMAGE)

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Direct Imaging of the Brown Dwarf Companion J1446B

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Figure1: Infrared image showing the directly imaged brown dwarf companion J1446B (dot indicated by the arrow). The central red dwarf (J1446) is masked in white during image processing. The scale bar at the bottom corresponds to 10 astronomical units (roughly the distance from the Sun to Saturn). Although J1446B lies only about 4.3 au from its host star, it is clearly detected just outside the mask.

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Taichi Uyama (Astrobiology Center/CSUN) / W. M. Keck Observatory

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