Monday, April 20, 2009

Emission from the White Dwarf System GD 16

Emission from the White Dwarf System GD 16 This chart shows the brightness and wavelength of the radiation coming from white dwarf GD 16 and its associated disk of closely orbiting rocky material. The data was obtained with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The colored data points indicate hot emission from the white dwarf (left of the graph) and cool emission from the surrounding material (right

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