Program: GS-2010B-C-9

Title:Dust and Ices around Extragalactic Young Stellar Objects
PI:Takashi Shimonishi
Co-I(s): Takashi Onaka, Daisuke Kato, Itsuki Sakon, Hideaki Fujiwara, Yoshifusa Ita, Akiko Kawamura, Hidehiro Kaneda

Abstract

Extragalactic Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) provide us important information on the understanding of the diversity of materials around YSOs in various galactic environments. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is an ideal environment for such studies thanks to its proximity and unique metal-poor environment. We have newly found more than 10 embedded massive YSOs in the LMC by using the near-infrared spectra obtained with the infrared satellite AKARI. We derived column densities of the H2O and the CO2 ices, which are the most abundant two molecules in interstellar ices, from the obtained near-infrared spectra, and we found the systematic difference in the chemical composition of ices around these extragalactic YSOs. To further investigate the chemical conditions of solid materials around the LMC's YSO, we here propose mid-infrared follow-up observation with Gemini/T-ReCS. Our proposed observations are (1)N- and Q- band imaging to spatially resolve the exact flux peak of YSOs, (2)N-band low resolution spectroscopy to investigate 10 micron silicate feature. Dust properties around extragalactic YSOs are poorly understood so far. The present observation should reveal the chemical properties of dust around newly found extragalactic YSOs, and should give a strong impact on the chemical study of solid materials in extragalactic environments.

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