Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1 (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1

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Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1. The white “+” marks the location of the protostar. The contour lines indicate signal strength. The colors represent the line-of-sight velocities. Movement away from the viewer is shown in red/orange and movement towards the viewer is shown in blue/green, indicating that the disk is rotating. Overlaid gray lines indicate the spiral arms identified though data analysis.

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R. A. Burns

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