{"id":22098,"date":"2020-06-30T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22098"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:20:54","slug":"eso-massive-star-vanishes-from-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22098","title":{"rendered":"ESO: Massive star vanishes from view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest report from the European Southern Observatory (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2010\/?lang\">ESO<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2010\/?lang\"><strong>A Cosmic Mystery:<br \/>\nESO Telescope Captures the Disappearance of a Massive Star<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22099\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso2010a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22099\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=22099\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010a1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,394\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;ESO\/L. Cal\\u00e7ada&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This illustration shows what the luminous blue variable star in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy could have looked like before its mysterious disappearance.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1593518400&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Artist\\u2019s impression of the disappearing star&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Artist\u2019s impression of the disappearing star\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This illustration shows what the luminous blue variable star in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy could have looked like before its mysterious disappearance.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010a1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22099\" src=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010a1-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010a1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010a1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This illustration shows what the luminous blue variable star in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy could have looked like before its mysterious disappearance. Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso2010a\/\">ESO<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"text_intro pr_first\">Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in a dwarf galaxy. Scientists think this could indicate that the star became less bright and partially obscured by dust. An alternative explanation is that the star collapsed into a black hole without producing a supernova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_intro pr_first\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cIf true,\u201d says team leader and PhD student Andrew Allan of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, \u201cthis would be the first direct detection of such a monster star ending its life in this manner.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Hcf7Ez-Rng?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Between 2001 and 2011, various teams of astronomers studied the mysterious massive star, located in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, and their observations indicated it was in a late stage of its evolution. Allan and his collaborators in Ireland, Chile and the US wanted to find out more about how very massive stars end their lives, and the object in the Kinman Dwarf seemed like the perfect target. But when they pointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/vlt\/\">ESO\u2019s VLT<\/a> to the distant galaxy in 2019, they could no longer find the telltale signatures of the star.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201c<em>Instead, we were surprised to find out that the star had disappeared!<\/em>\u201d says Allan, who led a study of the star published today in <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Located some 75 million light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, the Kinman Dwarf galaxy is too far away for astronomers to see its individual stars, but they can detect the signatures of some of them. From 2001 to 2011, the light from the galaxy consistently showed evidence that it hosted a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luminous_blue_variable\">luminous blue variable<\/a>\u2019 star some 2.5 million times brighter than the Sun. Stars of this type are unstable, showing occasional dramatic shifts in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/outreach\/glossary\/glossary_e\/#electromagnetic_spectrum\">spectra<\/a> and brightness. Even with those shifts, luminous blue variables leave specific traces scientists can identify, but they were absent from the data the team collected in 2019, leaving them to wonder what had happened to the star.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em> \u201cIt would be highly unusual for such a massive star to disappear without producing a bright supernova explosion,\u201d says Allan.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22100\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso2010b\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22100\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=22100\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010b1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;NASA, ESA\/Hubble, J. Andrews (U.&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Image of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\\u2019s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star.\\u00a0Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1593518400&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Hubble image of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hubble image of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Image of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star.\u00a0Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010b1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22100\" src=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010b1-500x386.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010b1-500x386.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/eso2010b1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso2010b\/\">ESO<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The group first turned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/vlt\/vlt-instr\/espresso\/\">ESPRESSO<\/a> instrument toward the star in August 2019, using the VLT\u2019s four 8-metre telescopes simultaneously. But they were unable to find the signs that previously pointed to the presence of the luminous star. A few months later, the group tried the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/vlt\/vlt-instr\/x-shooter\/\">X-shooter<\/a> instrument, also on ESO\u2019s VLT, and again found no traces of the star.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWe may have detected one of the most massive stars of the local Universe going gently into the night,\u201d says team-member Jose Groh, also of Trinity College Dublin. \u201cOur discovery would not have been made without using the powerful ESO 8-metre telescopes, their unique instrumentation, and the prompt access to those capabilities following the recent agreement of Ireland to join ESO.\u201d Ireland became an ESO member state in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/announcements\/ann18073\/\">September 2018<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The team then turned to older data collected using X-shooter and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/vlt\/vlt-instr\/uves\/\">UVES<\/a> instrument on ESO\u2019s VLT, located in the Chilean Atacama Desert, and telescopes elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cThe ESO Science Archive Facility enabled us to find and use data of the same object obtained in 2002 and 2009,\u201d says Andrea Mehner, a staff astronomer at ESO in Chile who participated in the study. \u201cThe comparison of the 2002 high-resolution UVES spectra with our observations obtained in 2019 with ESO&#8217;s newest high-resolution spectrograph ESPRESSO was especially revealing, from both an astronomical and an instrumentation point of view.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The old data indicated that the star in the Kinman Dwarf could have been undergoing a strong outburst period that likely ended sometime after 2011. Luminous blue variable stars such as this one are prone to experiencing giant outbursts over the course of their life, causing the stars\u2019 rate of mass loss to spike and their luminosity to increase dramatically.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mBNkuvsVLzI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Based on their observations and models, the astronomers have suggested two explanations for the star\u2019s disappearance and lack of a supernova, related to this possible outburst. The outburst may have resulted in the luminous blue variable being transformed into a less luminous star, which could also be partly hidden by dust. Alternatively, the team says the star may have collapsed into a black hole, without producing a supernova explosion. This would be a rare event: our current understanding of how massive stars die points to most of them ending their lives in a supernova.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Future studies are needed to confirm what fate befell this star. Planned to begin operations in 2025, ESO\u2019s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be capable of resolving stars in distant galaxies such as the Kinman Dwarf, helping to solve cosmic mysteries such as this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/archives\/releases\/sciencepapers\/eso2010\/eso2010a.pdf\">Research paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/archive\/category\/paranal\/\">Photos of the VLT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eso.org\/sci\/publications\/announcements\/sciann17277.html\">For scientists: got a story? 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