Water ice, silicate, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission featuresin the Infrared Space Observatory spectrum of the carbon-rich planetary nebula CPD -56 degrees 8032
M. Cohen et al., Water ice, silicate, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission featuresin the Infrared Space Observatory spectrum of the carbon-rich planetary nebula CPD -56 degrees 8032, ASTROPHYS J, 513(2), 1999, pp. L135-L138
Combined Infrared Space Observatory Short-Wavelength Spectrometer and Long-
Wavelength Spectrometer spectroscopy is presented of the late WC-type plane
tary nebula nucleus CPD -56 degrees 8032 and its carbon-rich nebula. The ex
tremely broad coverage (2.4-197 mu m) enables us to recognize the clear and
simultaneous presence of emission features from both oxygen- and carbon-ri
ch circumstellar materials. Removing a smooth continuum highlights bright e
mission bands characteristic of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the 3-1
4 eta m region, bands from crystalline silicates longward of 18 mu m, and t
he 43 and 62 mu m bands of crystalline water ice. We discuss the probable e
volutionary state and history of this unusual object in terms of (a) a rece
nt transition from an O-rich to a C-rich outflow following a helium shell f
lash or (b) a carbon-rich nebular outflow encountering an O-rich comet clou
d.