The compact circumstellar material around OH 231.8+4.2

Details The compact circumstellar material around OH 231.8+4.2 The compact circumstellar material around OH 231.8+4.2

2006-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606576v1

Astrophys.J.646:L123-L124,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by ApJL High-resolution jpg image is available from http://optik2.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~mikako/photo/oh231_fig1.jpg

Scientific paper

10.1086/507073

We have observed the bipolar post-AGB candidate OH 231.8+4.2, using the mid-infrared interferometer MIDI and the infrared camera with the adaptive optics system NACO on the Very Large Telescope. An unresolved core (<200 mas in FWHM) is found at the center of the OH 231.8+4.2 in the 3.8 micron image. This compact source is resolved with the interferometer. We used two 8-meter telescopes with four different baselines, which cover projected baseline lengths from 62 to 47 meters, and projected position angles from 112 to 131 degrees that are almost perpendicular to the bipolar outflow. Fringes from 8 to 9 micron and from 12 to 13.5 micron were clearly detected, whilst the strong silicate self-absorption allows only marginal detection of visibilities between 9 and 12 micron. The fringes from the four baselines consistently show the presence of a compact circumstellar object with an inner radius of 30-40 mas, which is equivalent to 40-50 AU at 1.3 kpc. This clearly shows that the mid-infrared compact source is not the central star (3 AU) but circumstellar material. The measured size of the circumstellar material is consistent with the size of such disks calculated by hydrodynamic models, implying the circumstellar material may have a disk configuration.

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