Juan R. Pardo-Carrion
Abstract N. 4

J.R. Pardo, J. Cernicharo, E. Gonzalez-Alfonso
and V. Bujarrabal; 1998.

"Simultaneous Observations of vibrationally excited rotational lines of 28SiO in Evolved Stars"

Astronomy and Astrophysics, 329, 219-228.


We present simultaneous observations of several rotational lines of 28SiO in the v=1,2,3, and 4 vibrationally excited states toward O-rich evolved stars. All the data were taken in a relatively short period of 65 days, which allows a comparative study of the 28SiO maser lines intensities and profiles. The observed differences concerning intensity and line shape among the different maser lines suggest that infrared overlaps deeply affect the pumping of some SiO masers. We qualitatively discuss this effect with consideration to the IR overlaps at 8 microns between the various SiO isotopomers and between 28SiO and water vapor.