Dusty Systems / HL Tauri

kfsone

kfsone
I was intrigued by this in the 1.2 change log

- Fix a crash in the protoplanetary disk creation
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It made me realize I haven't seen a "dusty" system yet, which made me wonder: What's HL Tauri (aka HL Tau) look like in EDs' universe?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141110.html
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=HL+Tau

Sadly I can't find HL Tau under any of the designations it has, nor any of it's nearby objects:

V710 Tau
HBC 395
2MASS J04313613+1813432
HBC 393
XZ Tau
2MASS J04321606+1812464
LP 355-37
2MASS J03300506+2405281
Melotte 22 STAR 5
Melotte 22 PPL 5
HD 281479
HD 281395
LP 357-231
HD 281664
HD 281789
...

(see http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/s...gs=1565&submit=siblings&hlinksdisplay=h_stars)

So two questions:

1. Is HL Tau in ED under some other name not listed on SIMBAD?
2. Are there any dusty systems and/or - I ask out of curiosity - plans for dusty systems?


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I wrote a little tool to pull all of the alternates for each star, the HD, HIP, V*, WISE, 2MASS and LP codes, pop them into the paste buffer in lower case, and then I hit paste in the game to see if it finds it... I got 200 siblings down the simbad list before I could find anything supposedly near HL Tau, which was HD 283447.

So my suspicion is that these stars are in the "taurus dark region" which seems incredibly sparse in ED.
 
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Karl Marx

Karl Marx
kfsone said:
I was intrigued by this in the 1.2 change log



It made me realize I haven't seen a "dusty" system yet, which made me wonder: What's HL Tauri (aka HL Tau) look like in EDs' universe?
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It's nothing special. They are bright, white, and somewhat large. Little to nothing around them and zero dust. Rather boring.
 

Varrag

Varrag
I was also wondering about that particular note. Because I don't remember that I've ever seen any protoplanetary disk, and I've visited hell a lot of T-Tauri stars. Comparably tiny Saturn-like rings don't count.
 

Zenith

Zenith
Perhaps they look something like this?

The ring of HD 227733 9 has a diameter of 342 ls (radius 171 ls) and it is 103 ls wide
HD22773-9.jpg
 

Loskene

L
Can't say I saw a disk exactly but one star I passed by had a noticeably illuminated cloud of dust around it. Wasn't much to look at and I thought it was a weirdly lit background element at first.
 

Varrag

Varrag
Zenith said:
Perhaps they look something like this?

The ring of HD 227733 9 has a diameter of 342 ls (radius 171 ls) and it is 103 ls wide
View attachment 20816
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Might be some sort of placeholder, because I doubt that ring on this picture has radius bigger than several hundred thousand kilometers, million or best. Protoplanetary disk should be a lot bigger, and I mean a lot. Say, 500.000 Lss from one side to another.

edit: sorry, missed to notice info on your picture. It's still too small I think. Probably good enough for now, though :)
 
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