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The Three‐dimensional Circumstellar Environment of SN 1987A

  • Authors: Ben E. K. Sugerman, Arlin P. S. Crotts, William E. Kunkel, Stephen R. Heathcote, and Stephen S. Lawrence

Sugerman et al. 2005 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 159 60.

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Caption: Fig. 15.

Rendered views of all light echoes identified in Fig. 10. Points have been rendered using the method described in § 5.3.2; also see Fig. 13. The left column shows observed views in the plane of the sky, the middle column shows views from the side (far to the east) and the right column shows views from the top (far to the north). Parabolae from the earliest and latest epochs at which echoes were observed are indicated in the side and top views. Point colors correspond to those in Fig. 10 except for the gold points in the top row, which denote echoes found in WFPC2 images which could not be resolved from the residuals of nearby bright stars in ground‐based images. Note that the field of view changes between rows, but major tick marks always denote 2 lt‐yr. Top row: Contact discontinuity echoes. Middle row: Napoleon’s Hat and southern counterpart. Bottom row: Inner circumstellar hourglass echoes.
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