CO Emission and Absorption toward V1647 Orionis (McNeil's Nebula)

We present high-resolution infrared spectra of V1647 Ori, the illuminating star of McNeil's Nebula, which reveal the presence of hot and cold gas-phase CO and ices of CO and H sub(2)O. The emission lines of super(12)CO (1-0), (2-1), and (3-2) likely originate from similar to 2500 K gas in an inner accretion disk region, where substantial clearing of dust has occurred. The width of the emission lines increases with increasing J-value, suggesting that the hottest CO gas we detect is located closest to the central star. The narrower widths of the low-J CO emission lines are indicative of more distant, cooler material in the inner disk. Superposed on the low-J emission lines are narrow super(12)CO absorption components, which are typical of cold interstellar cloud material at a temperature of similar to 18 K. The very low column density and very cold temperature for the absorbing gas suggest that we are viewing the central star through intervening material within the L1630 cloud and that the disk is oriented nearly face-on. The Doppler shift of the cold CO is offset from the hot gas by 6 plus or minus 2 km s super(-1), so it is likely that the very cold CO originates in a foreground cloud rather than the circumstellar material surrounding V1647 Ori. Model fits to the strong H sub(2)O and CO ice absorption bands are consistent with cold (