Recent publications
PDRs4All VIII: MIR emission line inventory of the Orion Bar
Mid-infrared emission features probe the properties of ionized gas, and hot or warm molecular gas. The Orion Bar is a frequently studied photodissociation region (PDR) containing large amounts of gas under these conditions, and was observed with the MIRI IFU aboard JWST as part of the "PDRs4All" program. The resulting IR spectroscopic images of high angular resolution (0.2") reveal a rich observational inventory of mid-IR emission lines, and spatially resolve the substructure of the PDR, with a mosaic cutting perpendicularly across the ionization front and three dissociation fronts. We list around 100 lines in a table, and measured the line intensities and central wavelengths. The H I recombination lines originating from the ionized gas layer bordering the PDR. This includes H I recombination lines, various ionization stages of Ne, P, S, Cl, Ar, Fe, and Ni, and the pure-rotational H2 lines in the vibrational ground state from 0-0 S(1) to 0-0 S(8), and in the first vibrationally excited state from 1-1 S(5) to 1-1 S(9).