Issue |
A&A
Volume 650, June 2021
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Article Number | A171 | |
Number of page(s) | 13 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039372 | |
Published online | 24 June 2021 |
The peculiar nebula Simeis 57
II. Distance, nature and excitation
1
Sterrewacht Leiden,
PO Box 9513,
2300
RA Leiden,
The Netherlands
e-mail: oudshoorn@strw.leidenuniv.nl
2
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP,
Rua das Estrellas,
4150-762
Porto,
Portugal
3
Presently: Pels Rijcken,
PO Box 11756,
2502
AT Den Haag,
The Netherlands
4 Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA), University of Colorado,
389 UCB,
Boulder,
CO
808309,
USA
5
NASA/GSFC,
Mail Code: 667,
Greenbelt,
MD
20771,
USA
Received:
8
September
2020
Accepted:
21
April
2021
Simeis 57 (HS 191) is an optically bright nebula in the Cygnus X region with a peculiar appearance that suggests an outflow from a rotating source. Newly obtained observations and archival data reveal Simeis 57 as a low-density (ne ~ 100 cm−3) nebula with an east-to-west excitation gradient. The extinction of the nebula is AV ≤ 2 mag. The nebula is recognizable but not prominent in mid- and far-infrared images. In its direction, half a dozen small CO clouds have been identified at VLSR = +5 km s−1. One of these coincides with both the optical nebula and a second CO cloud at the nebular velocity VLSR ≈−10 km−1. No luminous stars are embedded in these molecular clouds, nor are any obscured by them and no sufficiently luminous stars are found in the immediate vicinity of the nebula. Instead, all available data points to the evolved star HD 193793 = WR 140 (an O4-5 supergiant and WC7 Wolf–Rayet binary) as the source of excitation, notwithstanding its large separation of 50′, about 25 pc at the stellar distance of 1.7 kpc. Simeis 57 appears to be a part of a larger structure surrounding the HI void centered on HD 193793.
Key words: ISM: structure / HII regions / ISM: individual objects: Simeis 57
© ESO 2021
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