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Silicate and ice emission bands in the ISO spectrum of the PAH-emitting carbon-rich planetary nebula CPD-56°8032
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
Combined ISO SWS and LWS spectroscopy is presented of the late WC-type planetary nebula nucleus CPD-56†8032 and its carbon-rich nebula. The extremely broad coverage (2.4–197 μm) enables us to recognize the clear and simultaneous presence of emission features from both oxygen- and carbon-rich circumstellar materials. Removing a smooth continuum highlights bright emission bands characteristic of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (hereafter PAHs) in the 3–15 μm region, bands from crystalline silicates longwards of 18 μm, and the 43- and 62-μm bands of crystalline water ice. We discuss the probable evolutionary state and history of this unusual object in terms of (a) a recent transition from an O-rich to a C-rich outflow following a helium shell flash; or (b) a carbon-rich nebular outflow encountering an O-rich comet cloud orbiting in a Kuiper-belt-like distribution.
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- Part 3. Formation, Composition, and Processing of Dust
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 191: Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars , 1999 , pp. 291 - 296
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999