Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of Spot 1 on the Circumstellar Ring of SN 1987A

Author affiliations

¹ Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440

² NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Astronomy and Space Physics, Code 681, Greenbelt, MD 20771

³ Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

⁴ Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695

⁵ Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903-0818

⁶ Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411

⁷ Stockholm Observatory, SE-133 36 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden

⁸ Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218; on assignment from the Space Science Department of ESA

⁹ Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Observatories, Casilla 601, La Serena, Chile

¹⁰ Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, NOAO, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile

¹¹ Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712