sci12016 — Announcement
A young solar system in the making
December 4, 2012
An article in the latest edition of the journal Nature on the dusty disk around the protostar L1527 was, according to PI John Tobin, motivated by earlier Gemini observations featured in 2010 at http://www.gemini.edu/node/11520. The new millimeter-wavelength observations show the Keplerian disk of a nascent solar system no more than 300,000 years old.
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Fig. 2: Gemini NIRI image of L1527 taken in L'-band (3.8 microns). The bright yellow areas are the disk surfaces separated by the narrow dark lane of the disk mid-plane. The fainter, diffuse red features are scattered light from the inner outflow cavities of the protostar.