The Unusual Spitzer Spectrum of the Carbon Star IRAS 04496-6958: A Different Condensation Sequence in the LMC?

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Oct 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006apj...650..892s&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 650, Issue 2, pp. 892-900.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Stars: Circumstellar Matter, Ism: Dust, Extinction, Infrared: Stars, Stars: Carbon, Stars: Individual (Iras 04496-6958)

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We present a new Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) spectrum of the carbon star IRAS 04496-6958 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which exhibits a fairly broad absorption feature at ~11 μm. This feature is consistent with SiC absorption, as seen in a few Galactic sources. Furthermore, the C2H2 (and other molecular) absorption bands are the deepest ever observed, indicative of a very high column density. While the Galactic sources with SiC absorption have cool colors (continuum temperature ~300 K), IRAS 04496-6958 is much bluer, with a continuum temperature of ~600 K. Based on the Galactic sample, SiC dust at this temperature should still display an emission feature at ~11 μm. If SiC is the cause of the absorption feature, it suggests a subtly different evolutionary path and a change to a different condensation sequence than assumed for Galactic carbon stars. An alternative explanation for this feature is molecular line absorption; however, currently available line lists are not sufficient to properly assess this hypothesis.

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