| Telescope: | CFHT F/36 Cassegrain focus. |
| Date: | December 1996 |
| Instrument: | QUIRC + UH 13 elements AO system |
| Wavelength: | J band |
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| Orientation: | North is up. East is left. |
| Observers: | C. Roddier, F. Roddier, M. Northcott, J.E. Graves |
Young stars are believed to be surrounded with a disk of orbiting material. The material eventually condenses and forms planets and asteroids. In the case of a binary star, the companion sweeps away part of the material creating a cavity inside the disk. This is the first image of such a cavity. Light inside a small region surrounding the central binary star has been attenuated by a factor 1000. Intensity levels in the upper right boxes are 0.001, 0.0001, and 0.00001 that of the maximum central intensity.
