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MWC 1080星云中多环芳烃偏振红外辐射的探测

Detection of Polarized Infrared Emission by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the MWC 1080 Nebula

Han Zhang, Charles M. Telesco, Thiem Hoang, Aigen Li, Eric Pantin, Christopher M. Wright, Dan Li, Peter Barnes

摘要:

多环芳烃(PAHs)普遍存在于天体物理环境中,它们在3.3、6.2、7.7、8.6、11.3和12.7 $μ$ m处的显著发射特征表明,这些特征通常归因于C-H和C-C振动模式。虽然这些功能长期以来一直被预测为极化,以前的搜索PAH极化导致零,或充其量,试探性的检测。在这里,我们报告的明确检测偏振PAH发射在11.3 $μ$ m的星云与赫比格恒星MWC 1080。我们测量的偏振度为1.9 $\pm$ 0.2\%,这是出乎意料的高相比,模型。这对目前对多环芳烃排列的理解提出了挑战,这是消除多环芳烃排放所必需的,但被认为是基本上被抑制的。PAH通过共振顺磁弛豫过程与磁场对准可以解释这种高水平的极化。

英文摘要:

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous in astrophysical environments, as revealed by their pronounced emission features at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.3, and 12.7 $μ$m commonly ascribed to the C--H and C--C vibrational modes. Although these features have long been predicted to be polarized, previous searches for PAH polarization led to null or, at best, tentative detections. Here we report the definite detection of polarized PAH emission at 11.3 $μ$m in the nebula associated with the Herbig Be star MWC 1080. We measure a polarization degree of 1.9$\pm$0.2\%, which is unexpectedly high compared to models. This poses a challenge in the current understanding of the alignment of PAHs, which is required to polarize the PAH emission but thought to be substantially suppressed. PAH alignment with a magnetic field via a resonance paramagnetic relaxation process may account for such a high level of polarization.

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