Star Formation with PILOT:Science in the thermal infrared

Michael Burton

University of New South Wales

• The Prototype:• 60 cm telescope

• 1024 x 1024 InSb detector array

• 10 arcminute field of view

• Thermal infrared:• Line: H2 (2.4µm), PAHs (3.3µm),

Br(4.05µm)

• Continuum: L (3.5µm), M (4.8µm)

SPIREX: South Pole Infrared Explorer

JACARA / CARA

Showed you could do science!

Star Formation and the Galactic EcologyPDRs to HII regions:

Near-IR: H2 (2.4µm), PAHs (3.3µm), Br (4.05µm)

Wide-field

Thermal-IR

Imaging

PolycyclicAromatic

Hydrocarbons

and

MassiveStar

Formation

T Tauri regimeInfrared excess

KLnormal

LM

Rathborne, PhD 2002

SPIREX Thermal-IR Colour-Colour Diagrams

ProtoplanetaryDisks

Near-Infrared

Thermal-Infrared

3.29m SPIREX8m MSX21m MSX

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MassiveProtostars

Transmission: Dome C vs. Mauna Kea