Observations and Analysis of CH$^+$ Vibrational Emissions from the Young, Carbon-rich Planetary Nebula NGC 7027: A Textbook Example of Chemical Pumping - INSU - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers
Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2021

Observations and Analysis of CH$^+$ Vibrational Emissions from the Young, Carbon-rich Planetary Nebula NGC 7027: A Textbook Example of Chemical Pumping

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We discuss the detection of 14 rovibrational lines of CH$^+$, obtained toward the planetary nebula NGC 7027 with the iSHELL spectrograph on NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Maunakea. Our observations in the 3.49-4.13 μm spectral region, obtained with a 0"375 slit width that provided a spectral resolving power λ/Δλ ~ 80,000, have resulted in the unequivocal detection of the R(0)-R(3) and P(1)-P(10) transitions within the v = 1-0 band of CH$^+$. The R-branch transitions are anomalously weak relative to the P-branch transitions, a behavior that is explained accurately by rovibronic calculations of the transition dipole moment reported in a companion paper. Nine infrared transitions of H2 were also detected in these observations, comprising the S(8), S(9), S(13), and S(15) pure rotational lines; the v = 1-0 O(4)-O(7) lines; and the v = 2-1 O(5) line. We present a photodissociation model, constrained by the CH$^+$ and H2 line fluxes that we measured, that includes a detailed treatment of the excitation of CH$^+$ by inelastic collisions, optical pumping, and chemical ("formation") pumping. The latter process is found to dominate the excitation of the observed rovibrational lines of CH$^+$, and the model is remarkably successful in explaining both the absolute and relative strengths of the CH$^+$ and H2 lines.
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hal-03441822 , version 1 (15-10-2024)

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David Neufeld, Benjamin Godard, P. Bryan Changala, A Faure, T. Geballe, et al.. Observations and Analysis of CH$^+$ Vibrational Emissions from the Young, Carbon-rich Planetary Nebula NGC 7027: A Textbook Example of Chemical Pumping. The Astrophysical Journal, 2021, 917 (1), pp.15. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ac05c9⟩. ⟨hal-03441822⟩
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