Observations of 51 Ophiuchi with MIDI at the VLTI

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2005-08-01

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508052v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, to be published in the proceedings of "The Power of Optical / IR Interferometry: Recent Scientif

Scientific paper

10.1007/978-3-540-74256-2_21

We present interferometric observations of the Be star 51 Ophiuchi. These observations were obtained during the science demonstration phase of the MIDI instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). Using MIDI, a Michelson 2 beam combiner that operates at the N band (8 to 13 microns), we obtained for the first time observations of 51 Oph in the mid-infrared at high-angular resolution. It is currently known that this object presents a circumstellar dust and gas disk that shows a very different composition from other Herbig Ae disks. The nature of the 51 Oph system is still a mystery to be solved. Does it have a companion? Is it a protoplanetary system? We still don't know. Observations with MIDI at the VLTI allowed us to reach high-angular resolution (20 mas).We have several uv points that allowed us to constrain the disk model. We have modeled 51 Oph visibilities and were able to constrain the size and geometry of the 51 Oph circumstellar disk.

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