WFPC2/PC Imagery of the Extended Circumstellar Disk of Beta Pictoris (original) (raw)

WFPC2/PC Imagery of the Extended Circumstellar Disk of Beta Pictoris

1997

Abstract

We have observed the extensive circumstellar disk (Kuiper Belt) of beta Pictoris using the WFPC2/PC aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. We have used the pyramid of the WFPC2 to image separately the central star on a different CCD chip than that of the disk. This eliminated bleeding and other effects inherent in the CCDs, thereby leaving the PC chip containing

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