Vanderbilt Scientists Sketch Rare Star System Using More Than a Century of Astronomical Observations
March 16, 2021
March 16, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 16 (TNSJou) -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
Vanderbilt astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri variable--a rare type of stellar binary, in which two stars orbit each other within a sprawling disk of dust. To sketch its characteristics, the scientists mined a 130-year dataset that spans the widest range of light yet collected for one of these systems, from radio waves to X-rays.
"There are only a . . .
Vanderbilt astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri variable--a rare type of stellar binary, in which two stars orbit each other within a sprawling disk of dust. To sketch its characteristics, the scientists mined a 130-year dataset that spans the widest range of light yet collected for one of these systems, from radio waves to X-rays.
"There are only a . . .