Young brown dwarf in TWA-5 system
An image of TWA-5 A (lower, bright object) and TWA-5 B (upper), taken with the FORS-2 multi-mode instrument at the 8.2-m VLT/KUEYEN telescope on 21 February 2000. The integration time was 1 second through an I-band filter (wavelength 900 nm) with the high-resolution collimator (0.1 arcsec per pixel). The image quality is 0.18 arcsec FWHM (full-width-half maximum). The lines emerging from the bright image are caused by optical reflection in the telescope. The angular distance is 2 arcsec, cf. the indicated scale.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | eso0023a |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 21 July 2000 |
Related releases: | eso0023 |
Size: | 776 x 778 px |
About the Object
Name: | TWA-5 A, TWA-5 B |
Type: | Milky Way : Star Milky Way : Star : Type : Brown Dwarf |
Category: | Stars |
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Colours & filters
Band | Telescope |
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Optical R | Very Large Telescope FORS2 |