Bibcode
Villaver, E.; Manchado, A.; García-Segura, G.
Bibliographical reference
"Astrophysical Plasmas: Codes, Models, and Observations, Proceedings of the conference held in Mexico City, October 25-29, 1999, Eds. Jane Arthur, Nancy Brickhouse, and José Franco, Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias), Volume 9, p. 213-215 POSTSCRIPT: http://www.astrosmo.unam.mx/rmaa/APCM/PSGZ/sapcm_villaver.ps.gz"
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2000
Citations
3
Refereed citations
3
Description
Multiple shell planetary nebulae (MSPNe) are those which, in addition to
the main bright inner shell, show one or two additional external shells.
These faint external shells often have aspherical geometries, indicating
an interaction with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). Our aim
is to investigate, first of all, if the current theoretical stellar
evolutionary models are able to reproduce the different observed shells
and secondly, which ISM conditions are necessary in order to see the
effect of a moving central star in the PN halo. We have performed
hydrodynamical simulations following the evolution of the stellar winds
predicted by the theoretical stellar evolutionary models. The study has
been done in two parts: first, we approach the problem of the formation
of multiple shells in the case of a star at rest, then we investigate
the interaction of the different shells with the ISM due to a moving
central star.