Spitzer Space Telescope - Directors Discretionary Time Program #532

Tie Breaking Spectra of the Dusty Bow Shock Near R Hya

Principal Investigator/Technical Contact: Robert Stencel
         Institution: University of Denver


Co-Investigators:

Toshiya Ueta, U. Denver
Mikako Matsuura, U. College London
Angela Speck, U. Missouri
Chris Wareing, Manchester
Albert Zijlstra, Manchester


Science Category: ISM
Observing Modes: IRS Mapping
Hours Approved: 0.5

Proprietary period: 90d

Abstract:

We request 30 minutes of Director's Discretionary Time for an urgent, tie-breaking IRS 
observation of the first-ever, Spitzer-MIPS discovered, circumstellar-interstellar bow 
shock surrounding the AGB star, R Hydrae.