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H$_2$ Emission Nebulosity Associated with KH 15D

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

An H2_2 emission filament is found in close proximity to the unique object KH 15D using the adaptive optics system of the Subaru Telescope. The morphology of the filament, the presence of spectroscopic outflow signatures observed by Hamilton et al., and the detection of extended H2_2 emission from KH 15D by Deming, Charbonneau, & Harrington suggest that this filament arises from shocked H2_2 in an outflow. The filament extends about 15" to the north of KH 15D.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401177,
  title  = {H$_2$ Emission Nebulosity Associated with KH 15D},
  author = {A. T. Tokunaga and S. Dahm and W. Gaessler and Yutaka Hayano and Masahiko Hayashi and Masanori Iye and Tomio Kanzawa and Naoto Kobayashi and Yukiko Kamata and Yosuke Minowa and Ko Nedachi and Shin Oya and Tae-Soo Pyo and D. Saint-Jacques and Hiroshi Terada and Hideki Takami and Naruhisa Takato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401177},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press