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Resembling dusty infrared donuts, the images show unexpected moving structures in the disk around a young, massive star called V1295 Aquilae and confirm mysterious inner emissions reported in previous studies. The star is six times more massive than the sun and 900 times more luminous. It's only 100,000 years old; the sun is 4.5 billion years old.
We are using the first and only technology that is powerful enough to probe the circumstellar disks at such small scales. Our images and models revealed a more complex story of possibly moving structures and inner emissions, which raise more questions. Also, we are demonstrating the power of interferometry (using two or more telescopes that work together) to perform cutting edge science at a fraction of the price of space telescopes, which can't compare with our 50 times better resolution.
We are using interferometry to study protoplanetary disks, which is a relatively broad subfield to begin with. These disks host planet formation and eventually turn into full stellar systems that are similar to our solar system in some aspects and completely different in others. Until recently, we have only been able to image the outer disks using Hubble, ALMA, Keck or VLT observatories, but the inner disk remained a mystery.
Previous models of inner disk emissions theorized that the "cavity" between where the dusty disk ends and the star wasn't all that dark. We already know that there is transparent dust-free gas in that cavity which would not produce light in infrared.
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