Circumstellar material in the Vega inner system revealed by CHARA/FLUOR
@article{Absil2006CircumstellarMI, title={Circumstellar material in the Vega inner system revealed by CHARA/FLUOR}, author={Olivier Absil and Emmanuel di Folco and A. M{\'e}rand and Jean Augereau and Vincent Coud{\'e} du Foresto and Jason Paul Aufdenberg and Pierre Kervella and Stephen T. Ridgway and David H. Berger and Theo A. ten Brummelaar and Judit Sturmann and Laszlo Sturmann and Nils H. Turner and Harold A. Mcalister}, journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics}, year={2006}, volume={452}, pages={237-244} }
Context. Only a handful of debris disks have been imaged up to now. Due to the need for high dynamic range and high angular resolution, very little is known about the inner planetary region, where small amounts of warm dust are expected to be found. Aims. We investigate the close neighbourhood of Vega with the help of infrared stellar interferometry and estimate the integrated K-band flux originating from the central 8 AU of the debris disk. Methods. We performed precise visibility measurements…
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