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The Gray Needle: Large Grains in the HD 15115 Debris Disk from LBT/PISCES/Ks and LBTI/LMIRcam/L′ Adaptive Optics Imaging

  • Authors: Timothy J. Rodigas, Philip M. Hinz, Jarron Leisenring, Vidhya Vaitheeswaran, Andrew J. Skemer, Michael Skrutskie, Kate Y. L. Su, Vanessa Bailey, Glenn Schneider, Laird Close, Filippo Mannucci, Simone Esposito, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Enrico Pinna, Javier Argomedo, Guido Agapito, Daniel Apai, Giuseppe Bono, Kostantina Boutsia, Runa Briguglio, Guido Brusa, Lorenzo Busoni, Giovanni Cresci, Thayne Currie, Silvano Desidera, Josh Eisner, Renato Falomo, Luca Fini, Kate Follette, Adriano Fontana, Peter Garnavich, Raffaele Gratton, Richard Green, Juan Carlos Guerra, J. M. Hill, William F. Hoffmann, Terry J. Jones, Megan Krejny, Craig Kulesa, Jared Males, Elena Masciadri, Dino Mesa, Don McCarthy, Michael Meyer, Doug Miller, Matthew J. Nelson, Alfio Puglisi, Fernando Quiros-Pacheco, Armando Riccardi, Eleonora Sani, Paolo Stefanini, Vincenzo Testa, John Wilson, Charles E. Woodward, and Marco Xompero

Rodigas et al. 2012 The Astrophysical Journal 752 57.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

(a) Final PISCES Ks-band image of the HD 15115 debris disk, in units of mJy arcsec −2, with north up, east left. The white dot marks the location of the star and represents the size of a resolution element at the Ks band. For display purposes a 0 farcs8 radius mask has been added in post-processing. The western side SB is ~a magnitude arcsec −2 brighter than the eastern side SB, as is seen at shorter wavelengths (Kalas et al. 2007; Debes et al. 2008). (b) SNRE map of the image. The eastern side is detected at SNRE ~ 3 out to ~2 farcs1. The western side of the disk is detected at SNRE ~ 3–8 from ~1 to 2 farcs5.

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