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


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