The Mid-IR spatially resolved environment of OH26.5+0.6 at maximum luminosity

Details The Mid-IR spatially resolved environment of OH26.5+0.6 at maximum luminosity The Mid-IR spatially resolved environment of OH26.5+0.6 at maximum luminosity

2005-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0501187v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20042235

We present observations of the famous OH/IR star OH26.5+0.6 obtained using the Mid-Infrared Interferometric Instrument MIDI at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer VLTI. The emission of the dusty envelope, spectrally dispersed at a resolution of 30 from 8 to 13.5 micron, appears resolved by a single dish UT telescope. In particular the angular diameter increases strongly within the silicate absorption band. Moreover an acquisition image taken at 8.7 micron exhibits, after deconvolution, a strong asymmetry. The axis ratio is 0.75+/-0.07 with the FWHM of the major and minor axis which are 286mas and 214mas respectively. The measured PA angle, 95 degrees +/-6 degrees is reminiscent of the asymmetry in the OH maser emission detected at 1612MHz by Bowers & Johnston (1990) for this star. In interferometric mode the UT1-UT3 102m baseline was employed to detect the presence of the star. No fringes have been found with a detection threshold estimated to be of the order of 1% of the total flux of the source, i.e. 5-8 Jy. These observations were carried out during the phase of maximum luminosity of the star, when the dust shell is more diluted and therefore the chance to detect the central source maximized. We modeled the dusty environment based on the work of Justannont et al. (1996). In particular, the failure to detect fringes provides strong constraints on the opacities in the inner regions of the dust shell or in the close vicinity of the star.

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