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星际弥散带的线/圆偏振光谱测量

Linear/circular spectropolarimetry of diffuse interstellar bands

N. L. J. Cox, P. Ehrenfreund, B. H. Foing, L. d'Hendecourt, F. Salama, P. J. Sarre

摘要:

上下文星际弥漫带(DIBs)的携带者的识别仍然是天文学中长期存在的谜团之一。在DIB分布图中检测偏振信号可用于区分粉尘或气相载体。偏振分布可以给出关于吸收体的颗粒或分子性质的附加信息。为了检测和测量DIB的线性和圆偏振,我们观察到红色的视线,显示连续偏振。在这项研究中,我们选择了两颗恒星HD 197770和HD 194279。我们使用高分辨率(R~64.000)光谱偏振在3700至10480埃的波长范围内与ESPaDOnS阶梯光栅光谱仪安装在CFHT。结果获得了高信噪比和高分辨率的斯托克斯V(圆形),Q和U(线性)光谱。我们将先前观察到的DIB的上限限制为10倍。此外,我们分析了~30个额外的DIB,以前没有获得分光偏振数据。这包括9577 A DIB和8621 A DIB。结论.在45 DIB配置文件中的偏振的缺乏表明,没有一个吸收线是由一个晶粒型载流子引起的。严格的上限,小于~0.01%,来自观察到的视线意味着,如果DIBs是由于气相分子,这些载体的极化效率是至少6倍,高达300倍,小于那些预测的粮食相关的运营商。

英文摘要:

Context. The identification of the carriers of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) remains one of the long-standing mysteries in astronomy. The detection of a polarisation signal in a DIB profile can be used to distinguish between a dust or gas-phase carrier. The polarisation profile can give additional information on the grain or molecular properties of the absorber. In order to detect and measure the linear and circular polarisation of the DIBs we observed reddened lines of sight showing continuum polarisation. For this study we selected two stars HD 197770 and HD 194279. We used high-resolution (R~64.000) spectropolarimetry in the wavelength range from 3700 to 10480 Angstrom with the ESPaDOnS echelle spectrograph mounted at the CFHT. Results. High S/N and high resolution Stokes V (circular), Q and U (linear) spectra were obtained. We constrained upper limits by a factor of 10 for previously observed DIBs. Furthermore, we analysed ~30 additional DIBs for which no spectropolarimetry data has been obtained before. This included the 9577 A DIB and the 8621 A DIB. Conclusions. The lack of polarisation in 45 DIB profiles suggests that none of the absorption lines is induced by a grain-type carrier. The strict upper limits, less than ~0.01%, derived for the observed lines-of-sight imply that if DIBs are due to gas-phase molecules these carriers have polarisation efficiencies which are at least 6 times, and up to 300 times, smaller than those predicted for grain-related carriers.

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