In the Shadow of the Transiting Disk: Imaging epsilon Aurigae in Eclipse
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1 University of Denver. 2 University of Michigan. 3 CHARA/Georgia State University. 4 JPL. 5 University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. 6 California Institute of Technology. Astrophysical objects with unusually high mass to luminosity ratios attract attention. The fifth brightest star in the constellation Auriga, Aurigae, is such a case. The companion in this single-line spectroscopic binary has evaded direct detection for over 175 years 1, . For the first time, closure-phase interferometric imaging has
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