Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986phdt.........1v&link_type=abstract
Ph.D. Thesis Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. Dept. of Astronomy.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Astronomical Observatories, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Chemical Composition, Far Infrared Radiation, Galactic Radiation, Orion Nebula, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar Evolution, C-141 Aircraft, Emission Spectra, Galactic Evolution, Hydrogen, Infrared Astronomy, Line Spectra
Scientific paper
The Orion Nebula was the subject of intensive study for over one hundred years. Recently, several far infrared transitions among the low-lying levels of OH were observed toward IRc2. The OH is thought to be abundant, and plays an important role in the chemical evolution of shock and post-shock regions. The OH emission serves as a sensitive probe of the temperature and density for the shock-processed gas. A rigorous treatment of the radiative transfer of these measured transitions was performed using the escape probability formalism. From this analysis, the temperature of the OH-emitting region was determined to be on the order of 40K. This suggests that the gas is part of the post-shock gas that has cooled sufficiently, most likely by way of radiative cooling by CO. Such cooling from shock temperatures of several degrees can be accomplished in 100 years. A molecular hydrogen density of 3 million/cubic cm and an OH column density of 1.0 x 10 to the 17th /sq cm is found. The beam filling factor is determined to be 36%.
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