Photodissociation regions and star formation in the Carina nebula

• Main Authors: Rathborne Burton Brooks, J. M. Rathborne, P 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: 2002
• Subjects: Keyhole; South Pole; The Keyhole; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.7.8145; http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/Bibliography/pah20lr.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 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at 3.29 mm, a tracer of photodissociation regions (PDRs), reveals many interesting well-defined clumps and diffuse re...