Infrared Observations of novae in the SOFIA era
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-12-09 v1
Abstract
Classical novae inject chemically enriched gas and dust into the local inter-stellar medium (ISM). Abundances in the ejecta can be deduced from infrared (IR) forbidden line emission. IR spectroscopy can determine the mineralogy of grains that grow in nova ejecta. We anticipate the impact that NASA's new Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) will have on future IR studies of novae.
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@article{arxiv.1509.00066,
title = {Infrared Observations of novae in the SOFIA era},
author = {R. D. Gehrz and A. Evans and L. A. Helton and C. E. Woodward},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00066},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of "Physics of Evolved Stars 2015 - A conference dedicated to the memory of Olivier Chesneau"