The Mid-IR Emission Structure of IRAS 16594-4656

García-Hernández, D. A.; Manchado, A.; García-Lario, P.; Benítez Cañete, A.; Acosta-Pulido, J. A.; Pérez García, A. M.
Referencia bibliográfica

Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae III: Winds, Structure and the Thunderbird, Proceedings of the conference held 28 July - 1 August 2003 at Mt. Rainer, Washington, USA. Edited by Margaret Meixner, Joel H. Kastner, Bruce Balick and Noam Soker. ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 313. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004., p.367

Fecha de publicación:
7
2004
Número de autores
6
Número de autores del IAC
1
Número de citas
4
Número de citas referidas
4
Descripción
We report TIMMI2 diffraction-limited mid-IR images of the multipolar PPN IRAS 16594-4656. By using the Lucy-Richardson deconvolution algorithm we recover a two-peaked morphology in the innermost region at 8.6 μm and 11.5 μm. We interpret the observed mid-IR structure as the detection of the two limb-brightened peaks indicating the presence of a dusty toroidal structure in IRAS 16594-4656. We find that the supposed biconical openings of the dust torus are in good agreement with one of the bipolar outflows identified in the HST optical images.