Red Rectangle

English

Etymology

Coined by astronomers Martin Cohen and Mike Merrill in 1973

Proper noun

the Red Rectangle

1. (astronomy) The nebula and binary star HD 44179.
   • 1987, Beverly T. Lynds, “Optical observations of nebulae”, in A. Dalgarno and David Layzer (eds.), Spectroscopy of astrophysical plasmas,^[1] Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12,

     The Red Rectangle is only one example of an infrared object that is detectable in the infrared because of grain emission.

   • 1995, J.R. Miles, P.J. Sarre, and S.M. Scarrott, “Red Rectangle Emission Bands”, in Alexander G.G.M. Tielens and Theodore Peck Snow (eds.), The Diffuse Interstellar Bands,^[2] Springer, →ISBN, page 143,

     The Red Rectangle is a bipolar nebula with a remarkable spectrum in which emission is excited by the light of the central star HD44179.

   • 2000 July, T. Miyata et al., “Spatially Resolved Spectra of the Red Rectangle in the N-band”, in Ryszard Szczerba, Sławomir K. Górny, editors, Post-AGB as a Phase of Stellar Evolution: Proceedings of the Toruń Workshop held July 5-7, 2000‎^[3], Kluwer Academic Publishers, published 2001, →ISBN, page 352:

     Figure 1 shows obtained images of the Red Rectangle. All of the sources consist of a bright core and an extended nebula.