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Studying Star Formation with the Keck Interferometer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

Rachel Akeson*
Affiliation:
Michelson Science Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

Abstract

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The Keck Interferometer utilizes the two 10-meter Keck telescopes as a direct detection interferometer in the infrared. The 85-meter baseline produces a fringe spacing of 5 milliarcseconds at 2 microns, or 0.7 AU for sources in the Taurus star forming region. The first observations with the Keck Interferometer of T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be sources are presented and the implications for circumstellar disk models are discussed.

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Type
Part 6: First Results from New Facilities
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004