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July 13, 2016. IFA News
An international work group, amongst which are three IFA collaborators, published a few hours ago an article which is an ESO Press Release: ESO’s HAWK-I infrared instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has been used to peer deeper into the heart of Orion Nebula than ever before. The spectacular picture reveals about ten times as many brown dwarfs and isolated planetary-mass objects than were previously known. This discovery poses challenges for the widely accepted scenario for Orion’s star formation history. The Principal investigator of the team iHolger Drass (Astronomy Institute, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile), and co-aouthors Amelia Bayo, Nicolás Godoy and Nikolaus Vogt, these last three from IFA, form part of that international team. Amelia Bayo explains why this is important: "Understanding how many low-mass objects are found in the Orion Nebula is very important to constrain current theories of star formation. We now realise that the way these very low-mass objects form depends on their environment." Image: A deep infrared view of the Orion Nebula from HAWK-I, credits, ESO.
Associated links: See the complete ESO Press Release, "Deepest Ever Look into Orion" - Scientific Article
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