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is it my eyes or the image has some filament structure?
by VladRussian2 13y ago
is it my eyes or the image has some filament structure?
- deletes 13y agoAtmospheric distortion?
- pcrh 13y agoIt seems that one of the "background" blobs is aligned with the exoplanet.
- glogla 13y agoThere's filament alright [1], but I don't think it is visible on this scale, so it is probably something else. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_filament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_filament
- mturmon 13y agoIt could also be an artifact of the image reconstruction technique. It may be able to suppress high-spatial-frequency noise (salt-and-pepper) but not low-spatial-frequency noise (for example). Or, the algorithm may introduce artifacts due to modeling errors (say, imperfectly suppressing scattered light from the main star). Like the structures that you see in sonograms or some CT images.