Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-10-31
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 3 EPS figures, 1 EPS table, LaTeX (using AASTeX, psfig.sty). To appear in the special NICMOS/STIS ERO edition of The
Scientific paper
10.1086/311110
We present the first high-resolution near-infrared images of the edge-on silhouette circumstellar disk, Orion 114-426, made using NICMOS on the Hubble Space Telescope. Images taken against the bright nebular background of the ionized hydrogen Pa$\alpha$ line at 1.87 micron show the major axis of the disk to be approximately 20% smaller than at 0.6 micron, from which we deduce the structure of the edge of the disk. Continuum images of diffuse polar lobes above and below the plane of the disk show a morphology and evolution with wavelength consistent with predictions for reflection nebulae in a diffuse envelope with large polar cavities, surrounding a thin, massless, Keplerian disk, centered on an otherwise hidden central star. We make use of our observations and reasonable assumptions about the underlying disk structure to show that the disk mass is at least 10 earth masses and plausibly $\geq 5\times 10^{-4}$ solar masses.
Bally John
Chen Hua
Erickson Ed
McCaughrean Mark J.
Rieke Marcia
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