ATOMIUM

ATOMIUM is an accepted ALMA large program (ALMA id: 2018.1.00659.L) aiming at studying the wind of cool O-rich evolved stars. The project will also make use of other instruments and tools such as VLT/SPHERE, VLTI/MATISSE, MERCATOR/HERMES, radiative transfer models, chemical networks, binary model.

PI: Leen Decin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
CoPI: Carl Gottlieb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, United States)

• From the very first result

  Astronomers capture stellar winds in unprecedented detail

  By Leen Decin, Carl Gottlieb

  Posted on September 17, 2020

  Astronomers present an explanation for the mesmerising shapes of planetary nebulae. The discovery is based on an extraordinary set of observations of stellar winds around ageing stars. [Read More]