The Surprising Evolution of the Shadow on the TW Hya Disk

The Surprising Evolution of the Shadow on the TW Hya Disk

We report new total-intensity visible-light high-contrast imaging of the TW Hya disk taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. This represents the first published images of the disk with STIS since 2016, when a moving shadow on the disk surface was rep...

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Main Authors: John Debes, Rebecca Nealon, Richard Alexander, Alycia J. Weinberger, Schuyler Grace Wolff, Dean Hines, Joel Kastner, Hannah Jang-Condell, Christophe Pinte, Peter Plavchan, Laurent Pueyo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Circumstellar disks
Exoplanet formation
Coronagraphic imaging
Hubble Space Telescope
Protoplanetary disks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbdf1

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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbdf1

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