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年轻超新星残骸仙后座A中一氧化碳的光谱探测

Spectroscopic detection of Carbon Monoxide in the Young Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

Jeonghee Rho, Takashi Onaka, Jan Cami, William Reach

摘要:

我们报告的检测一氧化碳(CO)排放的年轻超新星遗迹仙后座A(Cas A)在波长对应于4.65微米的基本振动模式。我们获得了AKARI红外相机光谱朝向4个位置,明确地揭示了广泛的特征CO振转带谱线。观察到的位置包括在中心的未受冲击的喷出物,表明CO分子在喷出物中形成的早期阶段。我们沿着1弧分的长缝提取了Cas A的十几个光谱,并将这些光谱与局部热力学平衡中的简单CO发射模型进行比较,以获得所涉及的激发温度和CO质量的一阶估计。我们的观察表明,自330年前的爆炸以来,大量的碳可能被锁定在CO中。令人惊讶的是,CO并没有被有效地破坏与电离的He或由辐射核衰变产生的高能电子的反应。因此,我们的CO检测意味着超新星中形成碳质尘埃的碳比目前认为的要少,分子气体可以锁定超新星喷出物中大量的重元素。

英文摘要:

We report the detection of carbon monoxide (CO) emission from the young supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) at wavelengths corresponding to the fundamental vibrational mode at 4.65 micron. We obtained AKARI Infrared Camera spectra towards 4 positions which unambiguously reveal the broad characteristic CO ro-vibrational band profile. The observed positions include unshocked ejecta at the center, indicating that CO molecules form in the ejecta at an early phase. We extracted a dozen spectra across Cas A along the long 1 arcmin slits, and compared these to simple CO emission models in Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium to obtain first-order estimates of the excitation temperatures and CO masses involved. Our observations suggest that significant amounts of carbon may have been locked up in CO since the explosion 330 years ago. Surprisingly, CO has not been efficiently destroyed by reactions with ionized He or the energetic electrons created by the decay of the radiative nuclei. Our CO detection thus implies that less carbon is available to form carbonaceous dust in supernovae than is currently thought and that molecular gas could lock up a significant amount of heavy elements in supernova ejecta.

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