Image of a disc around a post-AGB system

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Images of a circumbinary disc around the binary star IRAS 08544-4431 (V390 Velorum). The system is binary (the primary being a post-AGB star) and there appears to be an accretion disc around the secondary.

Hillen et al. (2016) "Imaging the dust sublimation front of a circumbinary disk"
http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03023

Sci-news: "VLTI Captures Best-Ever View of Old Star’s Dusty Disc"

Maybe the data from IRAS 08544-4431 will help in determining whether second-generation planet formation can occur in such systems.

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