Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-11-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in ApJ Letters, version with full resolution figures available at http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~debuizer
Scientific paper
10.1086/511263
The mid-infrared emission at the center of IRAS 21026+4104 is not that of a simple compact source, as one would expect from an isolated high mass protostellar object. Furthermore the central thermal infrared emission does not appear to be coming directly from a circumstellar disk as has been recently hypothesized from near-infrared observations. The mid-infrared structure is complex, but with the help of multiple wavelength information two plausible scenarios to explain the emission in the region are advanced. The first is that there is a tight cluster of young stellar objects here. The second is that the mid-infrared emission and masers are delineating the walls of the outflow cavities of a massive stellar source located in the center of the near- and mid-infrared dark lane.
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