Modeling Infrared Absorption Bands with Nonspherical Particles

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Jul 2005

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Astronomy Letters, vol. 31, Issue 7, p.458-473

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Interstellar Medium - Gaseous Nebulae - Infrared Absorption Bands

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We investigated the two deepest absorption bands observed in the spectra of stars and protostars, the water-ice band with the center near 3.1 μm and the silicate band with the center near 9.7 μm, by using a core-mantle confocal spheroid model with various axial ratios and relative volumes of the core material. We considered the effect of grain size, shape, structure, chemical composition, and orientation on the central wavelengths of the two bands, their full widths at half maximum (FWHMs), the ratio of the optical depths at their centers, and the polarization. We found that the observed relationships between the FWHMs of the bands and the ratio of their optical depths at the band centers could be explained if we chose slightly oblate or prolate particles (a/b ≲ 2) of small sizes (r v ≲ 0.35 μm) with a silicate core and a thin ice mantle (V core/V total ≳ 0.7).

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