Water ice, silicate, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission featuresin the Infrared Space Observatory spectrum of the carbon-rich planetary nebula CPD -56 degrees 8032

Citation
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
Citations number
38
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
ISSN journal
0004637X → ACNP
Volume
513
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Part
2
Pages
L135 - L138
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-637X(19990310)513:2<L135:WISAPA>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
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.