Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-06-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Scientific paper
We report the detection of the 62 micron feature of crystalline water ice in emission towards the bow-shaped Herbig-Haro object HH 7. Significant amounts of far infrared continuum emission are also detected between 10 and 200 micron, so that Herbig-Haro objects cease to be pure emission-line objects at FIR wavelengths. The formation of crystalline water ice mantles requires grain temperatures T > 100 K at the time of mantle formation, suggesting that we are seeing material processed by the HH 7 shock front. The deduced ice mass is \~2e-5 solar masses corresponding to a water column density N~ 1e18 cm-3; an estimate of the [H2O]/[H] abundance yields values close to the interstellar gas-phase oxygen abundance. The relatively high dust temperature and the copious amounts of gas-phase water needed to produce the observed quantity of crystalline water ice, suggest a scenario where both dissociative and non-dissociative shocks co-exist. The timescale for ice mantle formation is of the order of ~400 years, so that the importance of gas-phase water cooling as a shock diagnostic may be greatly diminished.
Caux Emmanuel
Ceccarelli Cecilia
Giannini Teresa
Molinari Sergio
Nisini Brunella
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