Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-05-17
Astron.Astrophys. 423 (2004) 549-558
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages. Accepted for publication on April 30th 2004 in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20047067
We present ESO - Very Large Telescope and ESA - Infrared Space Observatory 3 to 4 $\mu$m spectra of Seyfert 2 nuclei as compared to our galactic center lines of sight. The diffuse interstellar medium probed in both environments displays the characteristic 3.4 $\mu$m aliphatic CH stretch absorptions of refractory carbonaceous material. The profile of this absorption feature is similar in all sources, indicating the CH$_2$/CH$_3$ ratios of the carbon chains present in the refractory components of the grains are the same in Seyfert 2 inner regions. At longer wavelengths the circumstellar contamination of most of the galactic lines of sight precludes the identification of other absorption bands arising from the groups constitutive of the aliphatics seen at 3.4 $\mu$m. The clearer continuum produced by the Seyfert 2 nuclei represents promising lines of sight to constrain the existence or absence of strongly infrared active chemical groups such as the carbonyl one, important to understand the role of oxygen insertion in interstellar grains. The Spitzer Space Telescope spectrometer will soon allow one to investigate the importance of aliphatics on a much larger extragalactic sample.
Brooks Kate
d'Hendecourt Louis
Dartois Emmanuel
Deboffle Dominique
Marco Olivier
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