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Detection of thermal water vapor emission from W Hydrae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

David A. Neufeld
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Wesley Chen
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Gary J. Melnick
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Thijs De Graauw
Affiliation:
SRON Laboratory for Space Research, P. O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Helmut Feuchtgruber
Affiliation:
Max Planck Inst. für Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740 Garching, Germany
Leo Haser
Affiliation:
Max Planck Inst. für Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740 Garching, Germany
Dieter Lutz
Affiliation:
Max Planck Inst. für Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740 Garching, Germany
Martin Harwit
Affiliation:
511 H Street, SW, Washington, DC, USA

Abstract

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We have detected four far-infrared emission lines of water vapor toward the evolved star W Hydrae, using the Short Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) of the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). This is the first detection of thermal water vapor emission from a circumstellar outflow.

Type
ISO First Results
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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