Tuesday, November 13, 2012

1211.2385 (Ryou Ohsawa et al.)

Unusual Carbonaceous Dust Distribution in PN G095.2+00.7    [PDF]

Ryou Ohsawa, Takashi Onaka, Itsuki Sakon, Tamami I. Mori, Takashi Miyata, Kentaro Asano, Mikako Matsuura, Hidehiro Kaneda
We investigate the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon features in the young Galactic planetary nebula PN G095.2+00.7 based on mid-infrared observations. The near- to mid-infrared spectra obtained with the AKARI/IRC and the Spitzer/IRS show the PAH features as well as the broad emission feature at 12 {\mu}m usually seen in proto-planetary nebulae (pPNe). The spatially resolved spectra obtained with Subaru/COMICS suggest that the broad emission around 12 {\mu}m is distributed in a shell-like structure, but the unidentified infrared band at 11.3 {\mu}m is selectively enhanced at the southern part of the nebula. The variation can be explained by a difference in the amount of the UV radiation to excite PAHs, and does not necessarily require the chemical processing of dust grains and PAHs. It suggests that the UV self-extinction is important to understand the mid-infrared spectral features. We propose a mechanism which accounts for the evolutionary sequence of the mid-infrared dust features seen in a transition from pPNe to PNe.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2385

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