Animated orbital motion of the young binary XZ Tau system (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Animated orbital motion of the young binary XZ Tau system

Caption

The location of XZ Tau A (lower-left) is fixed in the image and the relative motion of XZ Tau B is shown. The distributions of the radio waves from the protoplanetary disks are shown in gray scale and contours. The location of each star is shown as a plus sign.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Ichikawa et al.

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