Credit line for all pictures:

SAINTS Team/Peter Challis/NASA

See STScI site for pictures, animations and movies. 
 http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/10 


2009


Image of sn 1987A 2009-04-29 F439W Image of sn 1987A 2009-04-29 F502N [OIII] Red = F675W, Green = [OIII] F502N, Blue = F439W, colors played with to show make all 3 visible.

Red = H alpha difference 2009 - 1994 Green = [OIII] difference 2009 - 1994 Blue = F439W difference 2009 - 1994

difference of F502N [OIII] 2009 - 1994 difference of F502N [OIII] 2009 - 2001

difference of F656N Halpha 2008 - 1994

difference of F675W 2009 - 2001

Red = [NII] Green = [OIII] Blue = H alpha combining from lots of data


older images




HST SN 1987A Legacy

WPFC2 image from mid 1990's

20 years ago...

motion of Spot #1

Ring size:
1.6" East-West
1.2" North-South (but has ~45 dgree inclination)

The spot has moved 2 pixels or 0.050" in 7 years
or on a different set of images I get a motion for
spot #1 of 1.85 pixels @ 0.025 "/pixel = 0.046"

0.05"/1.6" = 0.03125 percent of the ring diameter

Time between the 1999 and 2006 image = 2785 days =2.4e8 seconds

Ring size=1.2e18cm diameter (from Nino's paper)
=1.2e13 km * 0.03125  =3.75e11 km

Velocity of 
=3.75e11 km / 2.4e8 seconds = 1562.5 km/sec

The Magellan echelle spectrum I took last
year @ H beta. There's emission of +/- 300 km/sec Full width @ zero or continuum
level. [OIII] +/- 200 km/sec... and lots of +/- 30 km/sec emission lines
from the stationary ring ??

from Peter Garnavich showing the ring brightness versus time . time runs up and angle left-right. Did the spots (2006 top of figure) show up in the bright regions (1994 bottom) of the ring ?? Are the Dark regions more dense then the brigher parts ???

resampled image of the mosaic with angle running along X and then each observation stacked on each other

Standard 3 color image

showing the nonspherical symmetry in the debris H alpha=Red F625W=Green F250W=Blue

F250W image

H alpha=Red [OIII]=Green F250W=Blue

HA/[OIII] 2003 = BLUE HA/[OIII] 2006 = RED If the ratio stays the same then we get white (or pink), because the left side is reddish, that means those spots have much more Ha flux to [OIII] then in 2003 /a>

[OIII]/[OIII] 2006 to 2003

power spectrum of the distribution of the ring hot spots

next set of images from taken from ACS/HRC all with same scaling from Jan 2003 (year=15.8653) --> Dec 2006 (year=19.7815)

Jan 2003

Aug 2003

Nov 2003

Dec 2004

Apr 2005

Nov 2005

Apr 2006

Dec 2006

I guess this is the image that I can make thats closest in color to
the previous HST release.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/star/supernova/2004/09/
These are the Dec 2006 HRC observations.

different version

Magellan spectrum continuum (star 3) removed ascii

spectrum with continuum and emission lines removed to show the reverse shock flux ascii

Light curve of 3 different spots

SN 1987A Debris Light curves

Light curves of sn 1987a

name      year      debriscircle  debrisell     ring-star    everything-star 
r01      7.58184      18.2766      18.2795      16.4500      16.1431
r02      8.02696      18.4232      18.4214      16.4859      16.1906
r03      8.95210      18.7184      18.7195      16.5747      16.2983
r04      10.3743      19.0783      19.0746      16.6692      16.4057
r05      10.9515      19.2830      19.2595      16.7360      16.4708
r06      11.8712      19.5181      19.4881      16.7792      16.5058
r07      12.1541      19.6061      19.5906      16.7867      16.5133
r08      12.9405      19.7604      19.7161      16.7924      16.5191
r09      13.3093      19.8502      19.8019      16.7928      16.5220
r10      13.7221      19.9724      19.9208      16.7098      16.4368
r11      14.0770      20.0277      19.9678      16.7139      16.4468
r12      14.7867      20.2980      20.1947      16.5202      16.2495
r13      15.8655      20.6386      20.4826      16.4712      16.2585
r14      16.4649      20.7643      20.5753      16.2351      16.0344
r15      16.7585      20.9800      20.6939      16.1984      15.9976
r16      17.8069      21.2224      20.7989      15.9037      15.7162
r17      18.1032      21.0560      20.5729      15.7950      15.6244
r18      18.5736      21.0223      20.5219      15.6646      15.5034
r19      18.7336      21.0555      20.4947      15.6578      15.4856
r20      19.1378      20.9969      20.5065      15.5982      15.4351
r21      19.7817      20.8870      20.3206      15.5167      15.3607
ground   19.8741                                15.4   +/- 0.1 (+star)
r22      20.2135      20.7412      20.0969      15.2035      14.9216
r23      20.9858      20.8980      20.2528      15.1865      15.0031

"B" filter
name      year     debriscirl    debell        ring-star    everything-star
b01      7.58139      19.3247      19.3307      19.3156      18.3587
b02      8.02683      19.4691      19.4568      19.4296      18.4817
b03      8.95168      19.6936      19.6805      19.3948      18.5525
b04      10.3740      19.9806      19.9726      19.4391      18.6145
b05      10.9514      20.1355      20.1242      19.3973      18.6184
b06      11.8710      20.3644      20.3341      19.4072      18.6783
b07      12.1539      20.3813      20.3197      19.3205      18.6243
b08      12.9405      20.5842      20.4904      19.3542      18.6762
b09      13.3092      20.6326      20.5587      19.3571      18.6712
b10      13.7218      20.7516      20.7343      19.1589      18.5321
b11      14.0767      20.7647      20.6880      19.0979      18.4977
b12      14.7860      20.9716      20.8238      18.8409      18.3164
b13      15.8653      21.1235      20.9384      18.3657      18.0058
b14      16.4646      21.2307      21.0400      18.0747      17.7732
b15      16.7584      21.3220      21.0591      17.9651      17.6600
b16      17.8067      21.4096      21.0670      17.5996      17.3391
b17      18.1029      21.4453      20.9512      17.4855      17.2414
b18      18.7335      21.4073      21.0088      17.3309      17.1075
b19      19.1376      21.2844      20.8971      17.2153      16.9871
b20      19.7815      21.4157      20.9984      17.1284      16.9167
b21      20.2136      21.4207      20.8359      16.9347      16.7004
b22      20.9858      21.6195      21.0150      16.8765      16.6463





WFPC and CTIO corrected mags...
The ground mags have the contribution of the ring in them. 
These mags have that contribution removed.
I normalized the stars (and therefore debris) mags to the CTIO mags. 
for stars.. this is probably okay. However, I didn't use any
corrections in going from HRC/F435W to B or WFPC2/F439W to B.
Corrections could be made for stars, but it doesn't make sences for
the debris (an emission line source).

Debris:
       date           U            B           V             R            I
      680.000      11.5934      11.7013      11.4829      10.9298      10.5012
      723.000      12.1457      12.3524      12.2156      11.5472      11.1521
      750.000      12.4877      12.5930      12.6483      11.9447      11.5931
      790.000      12.9214      13.0747      13.1126      12.4592      12.0748
      793.000      12.9821      13.1952      13.1430      12.4177      12.0949
      805.000      13.0326      13.2254      13.3355      12.6672      12.2758
      819.000      13.2149      13.4265      13.5183      12.8663      12.5273
      845.000      13.4484      13.6479      13.8241      13.1098      12.8901
      940.000      14.3929      14.7108      14.7763      14.0008      13.8644
      965.00       14.6121      14.9355      15.0840      14.3529      14.2031
      969.000      -999.00      14.9765      15.1483      -999.00      -999.00
      995.00       14.8758      15.1613      15.2451      14.5728      14.4201
      1002.00      14.8863      15.2540      15.3644      14.6862      14.4928
      1023.00      15.0570      15.4195      15.5067      14.7496      14.5655
      1040.00      15.3277      15.5337      15.5729      14.8800      14.6595
      1046.00      -999.00      15.6276      15.7406      15.0703      14.8275
      1087.00      -999.00      15.9431      15.8761      15.3124      15.0071
      1111.00      15.5698      16.0813      16.0490      -999.00      -999.00
      1124.00      15.5696      16.1133      16.2022      -999.00      -999.00
      1147.00      -999.00      16.1668      16.2615      15.7035      15.3178
      1148.00      15.8294      16.3070      16.2735      15.7204      15.3070
      1163.00      15.8866      16.3721      16.3337      15.8771      15.3937
      1168.00      15.6811      16.2852      16.3702      15.9131      15.4373
      1195.00      15.9091      16.5693      16.5942      16.2246      15.6354
      1221.00      15.8509      16.5803      16.7223      16.2205      15.8031
      1225.00      16.1078      16.6692      16.6572      16.2411      15.7354
      1254.00      16.3369      16.7925      16.7868      16.5335      15.8478
      1265.00      16.3242      16.8377      16.8397      16.4825      15.8475
      1295.00      -999.00      -999.00      16.9886      16.7057      15.9841
      1335.00      16.6509      17.1376      17.0425      16.9898      16.0410
      1341.00      16.5987      17.1140      17.0001      17.1940      16.0293
      1369.00      16.7021      17.2321      17.1260      17.3368      16.1101
      1416.00      16.8750      17.3036      17.3923      17.1661      16.2864
      1420.00      16.8067      17.3156      17.3610      17.3554      16.3223
      1423.00      16.9022      17.2915      17.3608      17.4379      16.2147

the WFPC mags for the debris
date       b      v       r        i      u    uv
1871    18.383  18.596  17.477  17.746  0.0  0.0
2092    18.763  18.925  17.848  18.105  0.0  0.0
2257    18.954  19.209  18.124  18.396  0.0  0.0
2428    19.050  19.409  18.189  18.562  0.0  0.0

WFPC and CTIO mags for Ring
   680.00      11.59   11.70   11.48   10.92   10.50
   723.00      12.14   12.35   12.21   11.53   11.15
   750.00      12.48   12.59   12.64   11.92   11.59
   790.00      12.91   13.07   13.10   12.42   12.07
   793.00      12.97   13.19   13.13   12.38   12.09
   805.00      13.02   13.22   13.32   12.62   12.27
   819.00      13.20   13.42   13.50   12.81   12.52
   845.00      13.43   13.64   13.80   13.04   12.88
   940.00      14.35   14.69   14.72   13.85   13.84
   961.00      14.56   14.91   15.01   14.15   14.17
   969.00      -1.00   14.95   15.07   -1.00   -1.00
   991.00      14.81   15.13   15.16   14.33   14.38
  1002.00      14.82   15.22   15.27   14.42   14.45
  1023.00      14.98   15.38   15.40   14.47   14.52
  1040.00      15.23   15.49   15.46   14.57   14.61
  1046.00      -1.00   15.58   15.61   14.71   14.77
  1087.00      -1.00   15.88   15.73   14.88   14.94
  1111.00      15.45   16.01   15.88   -1.00   -1.00
  1124.00      15.45   16.04   16.01   -1.00   -1.00
  1147.00      -1.00   16.09   16.06   15.13   15.23
  1148.00      15.68   16.22   16.07   15.14   15.22
  1163.00      15.73   16.28   16.12   15.23   15.30
  1168.00      15.55   16.20   16.15   15.25   15.34
  1195.00      15.75   16.46   16.33   15.41   15.52
  1221.00      15.70   16.47   16.43   15.41   15.67
  1225.00      15.92   16.55   16.38   15.42   15.61
  1254.00      16.11   16.66   16.48   15.55   15.71
  1265.00      16.10   16.70   16.52   15.53   15.71
  1295.00      -1.00   -1.00   16.63   15.62   15.83
  1335.00      16.36   16.96   16.67   15.72   15.88
  1341.00      16.32   16.94   16.64   15.78   15.87
  1369.00      16.40   17.04   16.73   15.82   15.94
  1416.00      16.53   17.10   16.91   15.78   16.09
  1420.00      16.48   17.11   16.89   15.83   16.12
  1423.00      16.55   17.09   16.89   15.85   16.03
date  B Ring    R Ring
1871  18.27      16.43 
2092  18.40      16.49 
2257  18.51      16.67 
2428  18.75      16.93 

F435W deconvolved 2006 - 2003 difference image

F658 NII image 4 orbits no-deconvolution

F658 NII image 2006 - 2003

F658 NII image 2006 - 2003 different grey level

F658 NII image 2006 - 1994