The peculiar circumstellar environment of NGC2024-IRS2

A. Lenorzer, A. Bik, A. de Koter +5

We re-examine the nature of NGC2024-IRS2 in light of the recent discovery of the late O-type star, IRS2b, located 5 arcsec from IRS2. Using L-band spectroscopy, we set a lower limi…