Star Formation with PILOT: Science in the thermal infrared
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Star Formation with PILOT:Science in the thermal infrared
Michael Burton
University of New South Wales
• The Prototype:• 60 cm telescope
• 1024 x 1024 InSb detector array
• 10 arcminute field of view
• Thermal infrared:• Line: H2 (2.4µm), PAHs (3.3µm),
Br(4.05µm)
• Continuum: L (3.5µm), M (4.8µm)
SPIREX: South Pole Infrared Explorer
JACARA / CARA
Showed you could do science!
Star Formation and the Galactic EcologyPDRs to HII regions:
Near-IR: H2 (2.4µm), PAHs (3.3µm), Br (4.05µm)
Wide-field
Thermal-IR
Imaging
PolycyclicAromatic
Hydrocarbons
and
MassiveStar
Formation
T Tauri regimeInfrared excess
KLnormal
LM
Rathborne, PhD 2002
SPIREX Thermal-IR Colour-Colour Diagrams
ProtoplanetaryDisks
Near-Infrared
Thermal-Infrared
3.29m SPIREX8m MSX21m MSX
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MassiveProtostars
Transmission: Dome C vs. Mauna Kea