Bibcode
Gonçalves, D. R.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Mampaso, A.
Bibliographical reference
Emission Lines from Jet Flows, Isla Mujeres, Q.R., México, November 13-17, 2000 (Eds. W. J. Henney, W. Steffen, A. C. Raga, and L. Binette) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 13, pp. 119-122 (2002) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2002
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Description
We are developing a project aimed at studying the physical properties,
origin and evolution of low-ionization structures in planetary nebulae.
Within this project we have identified a number of pairs of highly
collimated low-ionization jet-like features (Gonçalves et al.
2001). In spite of being very similar to real jets, they have the
intriguing property of possessing expansion velocities which are very
low, or at least not significantly different from, that of the shells in
which they are embedded. In this contribution we discuss our data on
these fake jets (Corradi et al. 1997, 1999) and compare them with
existing theoretical models for the formation of collimated structures
in PNe. These enigmatic jet-like systems are not easily accounted for
within the theoretical scenarios that deal with collimated features in
PNe.