view Abstract Citations (63) References (41) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS 10 Micron Spectroscopy of Young Stars in the rho Ophiuchi Cloud Hanner, M. S. ; Brooke, T. Y. ; Tokunaga, A. T. Abstract Spectra in the 10 micrometer region were obtained of 14 young stars associated with the central core of the rho Oph dark cloud complex. Silicate dust emission and absorption features can be fairly well reproduced with simple models using the emissivity of the silicates in the Orion Trapezium region, believed to be typical of molecular cloud dust. A spectrum of the Trapezium star theta1 Ori D was obtained to define the emissivity more precisely. The emissivity of silicate dust around the late-type giant Mu Cep does not improve the fits to the absorption features and provides a poorer match to the emission features. None of the sources display a strong 11.2 micrometer peak like that seen in comet Halley and attributed to crystalline olivine. A broad weak feature near 11.2 micrometer, possibly related to the comet feature, may be present in the emission spectrum of the Herbig Ae star HD 150193. Absorption features toward two of the objects are narrower than would be expected from Trapezium-like silicates, suggesting differences in the composition of the silicates. The relation between the silicate extinction band depth and H2O ice band depths is determined for the deeply embedded objects. One late-type object, Elias 14, clearly shows the 11.25 micrometer aromatic hydrocarbon emission feature, possibly excited by the nearby B star, HD 147889, though the latter does not exhibit the feature. Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Pub Date: January 1995 DOI: 10.1086/175069 Bibcode: 1995ApJ...438..250H Keywords: Absorption Spectra; Emission Spectra; Infrared Astronomy; Infrared Spectra; Ophiuchi Clouds; Pre-Main Sequence Stars; Astronomical Spectroscopy; Silicates; Stellar Envelopes; Astronomy; INFRARED: STARS; ISM: INDIVIDUAL NAME: RHO OPHIUCHI; STARS: CIRCUMSTELLAR MATTER; STARS: PRE--MAIN-SEQUENCE full text sources ADS | data products SIMBAD (17)