Adaptive Optics Imaging of Proto--Planetary Nebulae: Frosty Leo and the Red Rectangle
Abstract
Near-infrared, 0.1 arcsec resolution images of the bipolar nebulae Frosty Leo and Red Rectangle have been obtained with an adaptive optics system developed at the University of Hawaii. In both cases evidence is found supporting a binary star formation mechanism for the nebulae.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- April 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1086/175520
- Bibcode:
- 1995ApJ...443..249R
- Keywords:
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- Adaptive Optics;
- Infrared Astronomy;
- Infrared Imagery;
- Planetary Nebulae;
- Binary Stars;
- Image Processing;
- Imaging Techniques;
- Astronomy;
- ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS;
- INFRARED: ISM: CONTINUUM;
- ISM: PLANETARY NEBULAE: INDIVIDUAL ALPHANUMERIC: IRAS 09371+1212;
- ISM: PLANETARY NEBULAE: INDIVIDUAL NAME: RED RECTANGLE;
- METHODS: OBSERVATIONAL;
- TECHINQUES: IMAGE PROCESSING