Infrared Image of Binary HD 130948BC (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Infrared Image of Binary HD 130948BC

Caption

Infrared image of the dusty brown dwarf binary HD 130948BC. The binary is seen in the upper left and has a total mass about 11 percent the mass of the sun. The binary is in orbit around a young sun-like star, seen to the lower right. This image was obtained with the adaptive optics system on the Keck II Telescope, located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The image is 3.75 arc seconds on a side (about 1/500 the size of the moon), and the binary's separation is about 0.1 arc seconds.

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Mr. Trent Dupuy and Dr. Michael Liu (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii).

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