Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...199.6009p&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #60.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1395
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
Recent Hubble Space Telescope observations have provided the best resolved images of young circumstellar disks yet seen. In several cases, of which HH 30 is the best known example, nebulous young stars are resolved by HST into bipolar reflection nebulae several hundred AU in extent separated by a central dark absorption lane obscuring direct view of the star. Modeling suggests that these systems are edge-on optically thick circumstellar disks which occult the radiation from the star and near-stellar disk environment out to far-IR wavelengths. We are presently conducting an HST snapshot survey of up to 50 IR-selected young stellar objects with WFPC2 to study the detailed morphology of their disks and envelopes and probe the effect of inclination on the infrared spectral energy distribution of disk/envelope systems. Thus far, we have obtained images of 26 targets using the F814W filter of WFPC2. Six of these young stellar objects appear as non-nebulous point sources; ten are PSFs accompanied by nebulosity; and six are fully nebulous with no PSF. One of the objects was found to be an interacting galaxy pair. Preliminary images and results of this survey will be presented and discussed.
Padgett Deborah Lynne
Stapelfeldt Karl. R.
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