Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-01-04
Astronomy and Astrophysics (2010) 9
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
It has been recently discovered that Cepheids harbor circumstellar envelopes (CSEs). RS Pup is the Cepheid that presents the most prominent circumstellar envelope known, the origin of which is not yet understood. Our purpose is to estimate the flux contribution of the CSE around RS Pup at the one arcsecond scale (~2000 AU) and to investigate its geometry, especially regarding asymmetries, to constrain its physical properties. We obtained near-infrared images in two narrow band filters centered on \lambda = 1.644 and 2.180 \mu m (NB 1.64 and IB 2.18, respectively) that comprise two recombination lines of hydrogen: the 12-4 and 7-4 (Brackett \gamma) transitions, respectively. We used NACO's cube mode observations in order to improve the angular resolution with the shift-and-add technique, and to qualitatively study the symmetry of the spatially extended emission from the CSE with a statistical study of the speckle noise. We probably detect at a 2\sigma level an extended emission with a relative flux (compared with the star in the same filter) of 38 $\pm$ 17% in the NB 1.64 filter and 24 $\pm$ 11% in the IB 2.18 filter. This emission is centered on RS Pup and does not present any detectable asymmetry. We attribute the detected emission to the likely presence of an hydrogen envelope surrounding the star.
Gallenne Alexandre
Girard Julien H. V.
Kervella Pierre
Mérand Antoine
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