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Herschel/HIFI对IRC +10216的观测:富碳AGB星内部包层中的水蒸气

Herschel/HIFI observations of IRC+10216: water vapor in the inner envelope of a carbon-rich AGB star

David A. Neufeld, Eduardo González-Alfonso, Gary J. Melnick, Miroslaw Schmidt, Ryszard Szczerba, Leen Decin, Alex de Koter, Fredrik Schöier, José Cernicharo

摘要:

我们报告的观测结果的10个旋转过渡的水蒸气向富碳AGB(渐近巨星分支)星IRC+10216(CW狮子座),进行了赫歇尔的HIFI仪器。通过使用HIFI的双光束开关模式的观测,安全地检测到每一次跃迁。测得的线比率意味着水蒸气存在于离恒星很小距离(几个x 1.E+14 cm)的内部流出物中,证实了Decin等人最近用Herschel的PACS和SPIRE仪器观测的结果。这一发现明确地排除了观测到的水是由圆形轨道上的小冰物体蒸发而成的假设。IRC+10216的致密富C包层中的水的起源仍然知之甚少。我们推导出H2- 17 O/H2- 16 O和H2- 18 O/H2- 16 O同位素丰度比的上限为~ 5.E-3(3 σ),为IRC+10216中水蒸气的起源模型提供了额外的约束。

英文摘要:

We report the results of observations of ten rotational transitions of water vapor toward the carbon-rich AGB (asymptotic giant branch) star IRC+10216 (CW Leonis), carried out with Herschel's HIFI instrument. Each transition was securely detected by means of observations using the dual beam switch mode of HIFI. The measured line ratios imply that water vapor is present in the inner outflow at small distances (few x 1.E+14 cm) from the star, confirming recent results reported by Decin et al. from observations with Herschel's PACS and SPIRE instruments. This finding definitively rules out the hypothesis that the observed water results from the vaporization of small icy objects in circular orbits. The origin of water within the dense C-rich envelope of IRC+10216 remains poorly understood. We derive upper limits on the H2-17O/H2-16O and H2-18O/H2-16O isotopic abundance ratios of ~ 5.E-3 (3 sigma), providing additional constraints on models for the origin of the water vapor in IRC+10216.

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