3.3 and 11.3 micron images of HD 44179 - Evidence for an optically thick polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon disk

Details 3.3 and 11.3 micron images of HD 44179 - Evidence for an optically thick polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon disk 3.3 and 11.3 micron images of HD 44179 - Evidence for an optically thick polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon disk

Jul 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...411..794b&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal - Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 411, no. 2, p. 794-796.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Aromatic Compounds, Cyclic Hydrocarbons, Imaging Techniques, Infrared Spectra, Interstellar Matter, Optical Thickness, Absorption Cross Sections, Spectral Bands, Spectral Emission

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Images of HD 44179 (the Red Rectangle) obtained in the 3.3 and 11.3 micron emission bands show two different spatial distributions. The 3.3 micron band image is centrally peaked and slightly extended N-S while the 11.3 micron image shows a N-S bipolar shape with no central peak. If the 3.3 micron band image shows the intrinsic emission of the 11.3 micron band, then the data suggest absorption of the 11.3 micron emission near the center of HD 44179 by a disk with an optical depth of about one, making HD 44179 the first object in which the IR emission bands have been observed to be optically thick. Since there is no evidence of absorption of the 3.3 micron emission band by the disk, the absorption cross section of the 3.3 micron band must be substantially less than for the 11.3 micron band. Since the 3.3 and 11.3 micron bands are thought to arise from different size PAHs, the similar N-S extents of the two images implies that the ratio of small to large PAHs does not change substantially with distance from the center.

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