Photodissociation regions and star formation in the Carina Nebula

• Main Authors: J. M. Rathborne, M. G. Burton, K. J. Brooks, M. Cohen, M. C. B. Ashley, J. W. V. Storey
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Keyhole; South Pole; The Keyhole; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.256.9908; http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0111318v1.pdf

We have obtained wide-field thermal infrared (IR) images of the Carina Nebula, using the SPIREX/Abu telescope at the South Pole. Emission from poly-cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at 3.29µm, a tracer of photodissociation regions (PDRs), reveals many interesting well defined clumps and diffuse re...