Resumen
We studied the dust component of the dense circumstellar envelope (CSE) of two post-AGB sources known as Water Fountain nebulae: IRAS 16342-3814 and IRAS 18113-2503. The goal was to derive some of their physical properties and determine the dust temperature distribution of the sources. It has been proposed that axisymmetric post-AGB stars could be the progenitors of non-spherical planetary nebulae. The study of the structure and physical properties of the dusty CSE of these sources allows the assessment of this hypothesis, and casts light on the processes that occur during the last stages of evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. We considered a model with a dust density distribution consisting of a spherical distribution in the external region of the CSE and a component with axial symmetry inside, as well as a set of physical parameters for each source. Then, we performed radiative transfer calculations using the RADMC-3D code, which is a software package that runs thermal Monte Carlo simulations to compute the dust temperature, images and spectra for a model in dust continuum. We compared synthetic infrared spectral energy distributions with those observed by telescopes such as Spitzer and ISO, in order to get the best fit possible. As a result, we found good fits for both sources and axisymmetric dust temperature distributions for each one. Therefore, we concluded that our model is a suitable approximation to describe the dusty CSE of these stars, and it might be proposed to model the other water fountain sources known to date.
