Radiative Transfer Models of Emission and Absorption in the H 2O 6 Micron Vibration-Rotation Band Toward Orion-BN-KL

Details Radiative Transfer Models of Emission and Absorption in the H 2O 6 Micron Vibration-Rotation Band Toward Orion-BN-KL Radiative Transfer Models of Emission and Absorption in the H 2O 6 Micron Vibration-Rotation Band Toward Orion-BN-KL

Aug 1998

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Astrophysical Journal Letters v.502, p.L169

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Ism: Abundances, Ism: Molecules, Ism: Individual Name: Orion-Bn, Ism: Individual Name: Orion Kleinmann-Low, Infrared: Ism: Lines And Bands, Radiative Transfer

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We report the spectrum of Orion-BN/KL between 5.3 and 7.2 mu m observed with the Short Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) on board the Infrared Space Observatory. H2O lines of the nu 2=1 -0 bending mode with lambda < 6.3 mu m (the R-branch) are observed in absorption, while lines with lambda > 6.3 mu m (the P-branch) are observed in emission. Radiative transfer models including the (0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0), and (0, 0, 1) vibrational levels show that this effect is produced in a natural way by H2O absorption of 6 mu m continuum photons followed by spontaneous de-excitation to the ground state (resonant scattering). The intensities of the absorption lines can be explained with an H2O column density of a few 1017 cm-2 in gas with a temperature of ~150 K and n({H}2)~106 cm-3, although these parameters depend on the assumed location of the absorbing shell. Since the observed intensity of the H2O emission lines are larger than those seen in absorption, we suggest that rovibrational excitation of H2O by collisions in denser and hotter gas, such as found in shocks, also contribute to the P-branch emission of the 6 mu m H2O band.

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