HR 8799 Orbiting Exoplanets

Forfatter/Opretter:

Jason Wang, et al

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVgKidAuf4o

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https://dkwiki.dk/b/e16

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Wikimedia Commons

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HR 8799 harbors four super-Jupiters orbiting with periods that range from decades to centuries. Motion interpolate was used on 7 images of HR 8799 taken in infrared light from the Keck Telescope from approximately 16 10 2009 (archive) - approximately 21 7 2016 (archive) to create this image. Read more at http://www.manyworlds.space/index.php/2017/01/24/a-four-planet-system-in-orbit-directly-imaged-and-remarkable/ Archived.

Credits:

• Video making & motion interpolation: Jason Wang
• Data analysis: Christian Marois
• Orbit determination: Quinn Konopacky
• Data Taking: Bruce Macintosh, Travis Barman, Ben Zuckerman

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CC BY 3.0

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0