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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 147, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/147/1/18
Keywords
circumstellar matter; infrared: stars; open clusters and associations: individual (VVV CL036); stars: massive; stars: Wolf; Rayet
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- ESO Public Survey program [179.B-2002]
- Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
- FONDAP Center for Astrophysics [15010003]
- BASAL CATA Center for Astrophysics and Associated Technologies [PFB-06]
- MILENIO Milky Way Millennium Nucleus from the Ministry of Economy's ICM [P07-021-F]
- Fondecyt [1120601, 1130196]
- FCT (Portugal)
- POPH/FSE (European Commission)
- ALMA-CONICYT [31110002]
- GEMINI-CONICYT [32110005]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council of the UK
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA
- Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Spanish Virtual Observatory project supported from the Spanish MICINN [AyA2008-02156]
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The discovery of a detached dust shell around the Wolf-Rayet (WR) star WR60-6 in the young stellar cluster VVV CL036 is reported. This shell is uncovered through the Spitzer-MIPS 24 mu m image, where it appears brightest, and it is invisible at shorter wavelengths. Using new APEX observations and other data available from the literature, we have estimated some of the shell parameters: the inner and outer radii of 0.15 and 0.90 pc, respectively; the overall systemic velocity of the molecular (CO)-C-12(3 -> 2) emission of -45.7 +/- 2.3 km s(-1); an expansion velocity of the gas of 16.3 +/- 1 km s(-1); the dust temperature and opacity of 122 +/- 12 K and 1.04, respectively; and an age of 2.8 x 10(4) yr. The WR star displays some cyclic variability. The mass computed for the WR60-6 nebula indicates that thematerial was probably ejected during its previous stages of evolution. In addition, we have identified a bright spot very close to the shell, which can be associated with the Midcourse Space Experiment source G312.13+ 00.20.
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