Mid-infrared imaging of WL16: the spatial distribution of the hydrocarbon emission features

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Oct 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998mnras.299.1209m&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 299, Issue 4, pp. 1209-1214.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Circumstellar Matter, Stars: Pre-Main-Sequence, Dust, Extinction, Ism: Individual: Wl16, Ism: Molecules, Infrared: Ism: Lines And Bands

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We present arcsec-resolution images at 8.2, 10.0 and 11.3mum of the unusual young object WL16 in Ophiuchus, which has an extended envelope of fluorescing hydrocarbon molecules. To the limit of achieved sensitivity, the faint 10.0-μm continuum has a surface-brightness distribution that is not distinguishable from those at 8.2 and 11.3mum, where the luminosity is known to be dominated by the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission features. We conclude that the 10-μm continuum either arises from non-equilibrium heating of small dust grains that are well mixed with the hydrocarbons or is quasi-continuous emission from the PAH particles themselves, rather than thermal equilibrium emission from macroscopic dust grains, and that there is no significant silicate absorption variation across the source. The extended hydrocarbon emission may trace a flattened, equatorial distribution of circumstellar material or arise in bipolar lobes. The former case is slightly favoured, based on currently available data, and would imply that WL16 is a relatively evolved Herbig Ae star, the equatorial plane of which has been almost cleared of normal dust, leaving only fluorescing hydrocarbons and larger coagulated particles as a possibly transient fossil of the original circumstellar disc.

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