Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Astronomers verify directly imaged planet

June 22, 2010 - Astronomy.com
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One of those groups recently re-imaged their discovered system with the same instrument — the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. David Lafrenière of the University of Montréal and Ray Jayawardhana and Marten H. van Kerkwijk of the University of Toronto have confirmed that the object they initially imaged is indeed a companion planet to the young star 1RXS J160929.1–210524. Jayawardhana adds: “We also obtained images/spectra at other wavelengths, which confirm the temperature and mass we derived in 2008.”
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