HST and UKIRT Observations of the Center of the Trifid Nebula: Evidence for the Photoevaporation of a Proplyd and a Protostellar Condensation

Details HST and UKIRT Observations of the Center of the Trifid Nebula: Evidence for the Photoevaporation of a Proplyd and a Protostellar Condensation HST and UKIRT Observations of the Center of the Trifid Nebula: Evidence for the Photoevaporation of a Proplyd and a Protostellar Condensation

2005-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505155v1

Astron.J.130:1171-1176,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 5 figures, AJ, in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/432095

The Trifid nebula (M20) is a well-known prominent optical HII region trisected by bands of obscuring dust lanes and excited by an O7.5 star HD 164492A. Previous near-IR, mid-IR and radio continuum observations of the cluster of stars at the center of the Trifid nebula indicated circumstellar disks associated with hot stars with envelopes that are photoionized externally by the UV radiation from the hot central star, HD 164492A. Using WFPC2 of the HST, we present evidence of a resolved proplyd in H$\alpha$ and [SII] line emission from a stellar source emitting cool dust emission. Using UKIRT, an infrared observation of the stellar source with a proplyd indicates a late F -- mid G spectral type. We also note a remarkable complex of filamentary and sheet-like structures which appear to arise from the edge of a protostellar condensation. These observations are consistent with a picture in which the bright massive star HD 164492A is responsible for the photoevaporation of protoplanetary disks of other less-massive members of the cluster as well as the closest protostellar condensation facing the central cluster. Using the evidence for a proplyd, we argue that the massive and intermediate mass members of the cluster, HD 164492C (B6 star) and HD 164492 (Herbig Be star) have disks associated with them.

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