Bipolar Nebulae

    General
    Description

    This project has three major objectives: 1) To determine the physico-chemical characteristics of bipolar planetary nebulae and symbiotic nebulae, to help understanding the origin of bipolarity and to test theoretical models, mainly models with binary central stars, aimed at explaining the observed morphology and kinematics. 2) To study the low-ionization microstructures in planetary nebulae, their origin (in the context of the main shell formation), their physico-chemical characteristics, and their interaction with the nebular gas. 3) To discover and study galactic and extragalactic planetary nebulae, analyzing their physico-chemical properties and the metallicity gradients along the galactic discs.

    Principal investigator
    Project manager
    ROMANO LUIGI MARIA CORRADI
    Project staff
    ROMANO LUIGI MARIA CORRADI
    REBECA GALERA ROSILLO
    Collaborators
    J. Drew - University of Hertfordshire
    R. Greimel - University of Graz- Institute of Physics
    M. Santander García - Observatorio Astronomico Nacional Madrid
    D.R. Gonçalves - Observatorio do Valongo
    U. Munari - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
    L. Sabin - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    T. Liimets - Tartu Observatoorium
    B. Balick - University of Washington
    L. Magrini - Università di Firenze
    R. Wesson - European Southern Observatory
    Henri Boffin - European Southern Observatory
    T. Hillwig - Valparaiso University
    B. Miszalski - Southern African Large Telescope

    Miszalski, B and collaborators (2016, MNRAS, 456, 633) re-discovered a dwarf nova system, an eruption of which was first observed by ancient Chinese astronomers in the year 483 CE. Hillwig, T and collaborators (2016, ApJ, 832, 125) demonstrated that the symmetry axes of planetary nebulae with binary central stars always lie perpendicular to the orbital plane of the central binaries. The probability of encountering such a tight correlation by chance is less than a million to one.

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      Aims: Optical integral-field spectroscopy was used to investigate the planetary nebula NGC 3242. We analysed the main morphological components of this source, including its knots, but not the halo. In addition to revealing the properties of the physical and chemical nature of this nebula, we also provide reliable spatially resolved constraints that
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    • Discovery of a planetary nebula surrounding the symbiotic star DT Serpentis
      We report the discovery of a planetary nebula centered on the poorly studied symbiotic binary star DT Ser. In a few other symbiotic stars spatially resolved nebulae have been discovered as well, but only one of them probably is a genuine planetary nebula, while the others are likely to originate in complex mass-ejection episodes from the
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    • Metal-rich Planetary Nebulae in the Outer Reaches of M31
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    • Outflows from Evolved Stars: The Rapidly Changing Fingers of CRL 618
      Our ultimate goal is to probe the nature of the collimator of the outflows in the pre-planetary nebula CRL 618. CRL 618 is uniquely suited for this purpose owing to its multiple, bright, and carefully studied finger-shaped outflows east and west of its nucleus. We compare new Hubble Space Telescope images to images in the same filters observed as
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    • New Galactic supernova remnants discovered with IPHAS
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    • A carbon dwarf wearing a Necklace: first proof of accretion in a post-common-envelope binary central star of a planetary nebula with jets
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    • An Interacting Binary System Powers Precessing Outflows of an Evolved Star
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    • The Chandra X-Ray Survey of Planetary Nebulae (CHANPLANS): Probing Binarity, Magnetic Fields, and Wind Collisions
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      Carpano, S. et al.

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    • Discovery in IC10 of the farthest known symbiotic star
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    • K 3-22: a D-type symbiotic star
      A goal of the IPHAS survey is to determine the frequency and nature of emission-line sources in the Galactic plane. According to our selection criteria, K 3-22 is a candidate symbiotic star, but it was previously classified as a planetary nebula. To determine its nature, we acquired a low-resolution optical spectrum of K 3-22. Our analysis of our
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    • The evolution of M 2-9 from 2000 to 2010
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    • The ongoing outburst of the new symbiotic star IPHASJ190832.31+051226.6
      Aims: Eleven new symbiotic stars have recently been discovered with IPHAS, the INT Hα survey of the Northern Galactic plane. The star IPHAS J190832.31+051226.6 was proposed as an additional candidate on the basis of the existing spectrum. Here, we investigate the nature of this source by means of additional observations. Methods: Photometric data
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