Photodissociation regions and star formation in the Carina nebula

• Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Main Authors: Rathborne, Jill, Burton, Michael, Brooks, Kate, Cohen, M, Ashley, Michael, Storey, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Keyhole; South Pole; The Keyhole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/39140; https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05149.x

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 μm, a tracer of photodissociation regions (PDRs), reveals many interesting well-defined clumps and diffuse re...