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在富碳AGB星的拱星包层中水蒸气的广泛存在:来自Herschel/HIFI巡天的第一个结果

The widespread occurence of water vapor in the circumstellar envelopes of carbon-rich AGB stars: first results from a survey with Herschel/HIFI

D. A. Neufeld, E. González-Alfonso, G. Melnick, R. Szczerba, M. Schmidt, L. Decin, J. Alcolea, A. de Koter, F. L. Schöier, V. Bujarrabal, J. Cernicharo, C. Domi… 展开作者

D. A. Neufeld, E. González-Alfonso, G. Melnick, R. Szczerba, M. Schmidt, L. Decin, J. Alcolea, A. de Koter, F. L. Schöier, V. Bujarrabal, J. Cernicharo, C. Dominik, K. Justtanont, A. P. Marston, K. Menten, H. Olofsson, P. Planesas, D. Teyssier, L. B. F. M. Waters

摘要:

我们报告的初步调查结果的水蒸气在8个C星的样本与大的中红外连续通量:V384 Per,CIT 6,V Hya,Y CVn,IRAS 15194-5115,V Cyg,S Cep和IRC+40540。这项调查是使用赫歇尔空间天文台上的HIFI仪器进行的,需要观测邻水和对位水的最低跃迁:分别为556.936 GHz 1(10)-1(01)和1113.343 GHz 1(11)-0(00)跃迁。在所有八颗目标恒星中都明确地检测到了水蒸气。在这次调查之前,IRC+10216是唯一一颗富含碳的AGB恒星,在这种情况下,使用亚毫米波天文卫星(SWAS)发现了热水排放。我们的研究结果表明,IRC+10216并不罕见,除了它接近地球导致了一个大的线通量,可检测SWAS。水的谱线宽度通常与CO旋转谱线的宽度相似,这与柯伊伯带类似物的蒸发(Ford & Neufeld 2001)是富碳AGB星中水蒸气的一般解释不同。在我们的样本中,综合水线通量与6.3微米连续通量的比率(一个衡量水流出率的比率)和恒星的总质量损失率之间没有明显的相关性。

英文摘要:

We report the preliminary results of a survey for water vapor in a sample of eight C stars with large mid-IR continuum fluxes: V384 Per, CIT 6, V Hya, Y CVn, IRAS 15194-5115, V Cyg, S Cep, and IRC+40540. This survey, performed using the HIFI instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory, entailed observations of the lowest transitions of both ortho- and para-water: the 556.936 GHz 1(10)-1(01) and 1113.343 GHz 1(11)-0(00) transitions, respectively. Water vapor was unequivocally detected in all eight of the target stars. Prior to this survey, IRC+10216 was the only carbon-rich AGB star from which thermal water emissions had been discovered, in that case with the use of the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS). Our results indicate that IRC+10216 is not unusual, except insofar as its proximity to Earth leads to a large line flux that was detectable with SWAS. The water spectral line widths are typically similar to those of CO rotational lines, arguing against the vaporization of a Kuiper belt analog (Ford & Neufeld 2001) being the general explanation for water vapor in carbon-rich AGB stars. There is no apparent correlation between the ratio of the integrated water line fluxes to the 6.3 micron continuum flux - a ratio which measures the water outflow rate - and the total mass-loss rate for the stars in our sample.

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