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High Resolution 11.6 μm Images of the Central 1 Parsec of the Galactic Center With a New 58 × 62 Si:Ga Array Camera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

Daniel Y. Gezari*
Affiliation:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Infrared Astrophysics Branch - Code 685 Greenbelt, MD 20771

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Seeing-limited 11.6-μm images of the central 1 parsec (~20 arcsec) of the Galactic Center have been obtained with a new 58 × 62 pixel Si:Ga array camera system. Previous array observations (Gezari et al. 1985) were used to derive the color temperature structure of the region. This higher spatial resolution work resolves new structure, showing a strong similarity (and notable discrepancies) between the 11.6-μm emission and the 6-cm continuum VLA maps (cf., Morris and Yusef-Zadeh 1986) and closely correlated Brackett a infrared array images (Forrest et al. 1986). Careful comparison of the dust and ionized gas emission distributions shows most of the compact 11.6-μm dust sources are displaced from the gas peaks.

Type
Sagittarius A West and the Circumnuclear Disk
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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