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| Figure 9. The Vega Planetary System. To the left is the best available image of the debris system (Holland et al. 1998), obtained at 850m m with SCUBA bolometer array (the black star is the position of Vega itself). To the right is an artist’s concept of how the system might look to a 10-m telescope operating at 50 m m. In addition to the debris ring, two giant planets (~ Jupiter mass) are indicated to suggest the possibility of probing their relationship to the structure of the debris system. |