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Left: The distribution of water maser spots in a protoplanetary disk. The disk is centered with the radio continuum jet which is emanating from the central star. It is believed that the water masers trace the rotational motion of the protoplanetary disk in this system. Right: On the same spatial scale, the solar system is shown in order to demonstrate the scale of the protoplanetary system detected in this observation.

Investigator(s):  Jose M. Torrelles, Paul Ho, Luis Rodriguez, Jose F. Gomez, Guillem Anglada, and Salvador Curiel

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Technical Data

Telescope	VLA
Date of Observation	1996-12-15
Type of Observation	Spectral Line Observations
Wavelength	1.3 cm
Frequency	22.285 GHz
Center of Image	RA: 05:47:7.26, Dec: 00:17:39.30 (J2000)
Field of View	0.0004 x 0.0003 degrees
Technical Caption	VLA A-array observations of 1.3 cm continuum and H20 maser emission.



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