• DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201117762
Corpus ID: 53690653

Constraining the circumbinary envelope of Z Canis Majoris via imaging polarimetry

@article{Cnovas2012ConstrainingTC,
  title={Constraining the circumbinary envelope of Z Canis Majoris via imaging polarimetry},
  author={H. C{\'a}novas and M. Min and S. Jeffers and M. Rodenhuis and C. Keller},
  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  year={2012},
  volume={543}
}

• H. Cánovas, M. Min, +2 authors C. Keller
• Published 2012
• Physics
• Astronomy and Astrophysics

Context. Z CMa is a complex binary system composed of a Herbig Be and an FU Ori star. The Herbig star is surrounded by a dust cocoon of variable geometry, and the whole system is surrounded by an infalling envelope. Previous spectropolarimetric observations have reported a preferred orientation of the polarization angle, perpendicular to the direction of a very extended, parsec-sized jet associated with the Herbig star. Aims. The variability in the amount of polarized light has been associated… Expand

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