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Herbig Ae星光谱中的IR发射特征:化学演化的证据

The characteristics of the IR emission features in the spectra of Herbig Ae stars: Evidence for chemical evolution

C. Boersma, J. Bouwman, F. Lahuis, C. van Kerckhoven, A. G. G. M. Tielens, L. B. F. M. Waters, Th. Henning

摘要:

赫比格Ae/Be星是一类中等质量的年轻前主序星天体,已知在它们的直接附近仍然存在着数量不等的出生云物质。我们的红外发射带,由于荧光PAH分子,在赫比格Ae/Be星的光谱和链接观察到的变化的空间方面的中红外发射。我们分析了两个PAH占主导地位的光谱,从样品的15赫比格Ae/Be星观察斯皮策和主要PAH波段的配置文件。的形状和测量的频带特性显示两个斯皮策光谱之间的显着变化。这些变化与其他研究充分的赫比格Ae/Be星的三个ISO光谱之间的变化平行。所得出的配置文件进行比较,从广泛的样本来源。斯皮策和ISO光谱表现出的特征通常分别被解释为类星际物质(ISM),非类ISM,或两者的组合。我们认为,PAH排放检测到的源表现出ISM样和非ISM样特征的组合表明存在两个不同的,空间上分离的,PAH家族。由于单个PAH谱带的形状反映了所涉及的PAH分子的组成,这表明在随后的恒星形成的进化相关阶段中的PAH与一般ISM中的不同,这意味着活跃的化学。探测到的PAH发射都不能与(未解析的)盘相关联,因此与星周云相关联。这意味着化学变化可能已经发生在出生云,而不一定是在磁盘。

英文摘要:

Herbig Ae/Be stars are a class of young pre-main sequence stellar objects of intermediate mass and are known to have varying amounts of natal cloud material still present in their direct vicinity. We characterise the IR emission bands, due to fluorescence by PAH molecules, in the spectra of Herbig Ae/Be stars and link observed variations to spatial aspects of the mid-IR emission. We analysed two PAH dominated spectra from a sample of 15 Herbig Ae/Be stars observed with Spitzer and derive profiles of the major PAH bands. The shape and the measured band characteristics show pronounced variations between the two Spitzer spectra. Those variations parallel those found between three ISO spectra of other, well-studied, Herbig Ae/Be stars. The derived profiles are compared to those from a broad sample of sources. The Spitzer and ISO spectra exhibit characteristics commonly interpreted respectively as interstellar matter-like (ISM), non-ISM-like, or a combination of the two. We argue that the PAH emission detected from the sources exhibiting a combination of ISM-like and non-ISM-like characteristics indicates the presence of two dissimilar, spatially separated, PAH families. As the shape of the individual PAH band profiles reflects the composition of the PAH molecules involved, this demonstrates that PAHs in subsequent, evolutionary linked stages of star formation are different from those in the general ISM, implying active chemistry. None of the detected PAH emission can be associated with the (unresolved) disk and is thus associated with the circumstellar cloud. This implies that chemical changes may already occur in the natal cloud and not necessarily in the disk.

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