High Resolution Mid - Infrared Imaging of the AGB Star RV Boo with the Steward Observatory Adaptive Optics System

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2004-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410677v1

Astrophys.J. 620 (2005) 450-458

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 8 figures, accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/426854

We present high resolution (~0.1"), very high Strehl ratio (0.97+-0.03) mid-infrared (IR) adaptive optics (AO) images of the AGB star RV Boo utilizing the MMT adaptive secondary AO system. RV Boo was observed at a number of wavelengths over two epochs (9.8 um in May 2003, 8.8, 9.8 and 11.7 um in February 2004) and appeared slightly extended at all wavelengths. While the extension is very slight at 8.8 and 11.7 um data, the extension is somewhat more pronounced at 9.8 um. With such high Strehls we can achieve super-resolutions of 0.1" by deconvolving RV Boo with a point-spread function (PSF) derived from an unresolved star. We tentatively resolve RV Boo into a 0.16" FWHM extension at a position angle of 120 degrees. At a distance of 390(+250)(-100) pc, this corresponds to a FWHM of 60(+40)(-15) AU. We measure a total flux at 9.8 um of 145+-24 Jy for the disk and star. Based on a dust thermal emission model for the observed IR spectral energy distribution and the 9.8 um AO image, we derive a disk dust mass of 1.6x10^-6 Msun and an inclination of 30 to 45 degrees from edge-on. We discuss whether the dust disk observed around RV Boo is an example of the early stages in the formation of asymmetric structure in planetary nebula.

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