Three-Color Laser Guide Star Movie of the Galactic Center

Caption:
This three color animation, centered on Sgr A*-IR shows, for the first time ever, the broadband color of Sgr A*-IR throughout an outburst. The image is 1 arcsec on a side and covers about two hours of observations. For this false color animation, H (1.8 microns) = blue, K' (2.1 microns) = green, and L' (3.8 microns) = red. The animation was created from data obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory using the Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System.

Formats:

• Shockwave format shown above (0.5 Mbytes)
• High-resolution avi format (24 Mbytes)
• High-resolution mov format (23 Mbytes; quicktime required)
• medium-resolution gif format(2.4 Mbytes)


• Static image of movie above in strip format(0.3 Mbytes)

References and Credit:
Sgr A* Color Paper
UCLA Galactic Center Group
W.M. Keck Observatory Laser Team