Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986apj...311..360p&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 311, Dec. 1, 1986, p. 360-370.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Infrared Sources (Astronomy), Interstellar Matter, Molecular Clouds, Reflection Nebulae, Cosmic Dust, Far Infrared Radiation, Near Infrared Radiation, Polarimetry, Spectral Energy Distribution, Spectrophotometry
Scientific paper
New observations of Orion Molecular Cloud 2 have been made from 1 to 100 microns using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. An extensive program of polarimetry, photometry, and spectrophotometry has shown that the extended emission regions associated with two of the previously known near-infrared sources, IRS 1 and IRS 4, are infrared reflection nebulae, and that the compact sources IRS 1 and IRS 4 are the main luminosity sources in the cloud. The constraints from the far-infrared observations and an analysis of the scattered light from the IRS 1 nebula show that OMC-2/IRS 1 can be characterized by L of 500 solar luminosities or less and T of roughly 1000 K. The near-infrared albedo of the grains in the IRS 1 nebula is greater than 0.08.
Capps R.
Lester Dan
Pendleton Yvonne
Werner Michael W.
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