VISIR-VLT images of the water maser: Emitting planetary nebula K3-35
Abstract
K3-35 is an extremely young bipolar planetary nebula that contains a precessing bipolar jet and a small (radius 80 AU) water maser equatorial ring. We have obtained VISIR-VLT images of K3-35 in the PAH1 (λ=8.6 μm), [S iv] (λ=10.6 μm), and SiC (λ=11.85 μm) filters to analize the mid-IR morphology and the temperature structure of its dust emission. The images show the innermost nebular regions undetected at optical wavelegths and the precessing bipolar jets. The temperature map shows variations in the temperature in the equatorial zone and in regions associated to its jets.
- Publication:
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Planetary Nebulae: An Eye to the Future
- Pub Date:
- August 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312011180
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1109.5839
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..283..312B
- Keywords:
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- planetary nebulae: general;
- planetary nebulae: individual (PN K3-35);
- ISM: jets and outflows;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 2 pages, 2 figures, 283 IAU Symp. Planetary Nebulae an Eye to the Future