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Balick, B.; Gomez, T.; Frank, A.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Alcolea, J.; Vinkovich, D.
Bibliographical reference
Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae 5 conference, held in Bowness-on-Windermere, U.K., 20 - 25 June 2010, A. A. Zijlstra, F. Lykou, I. McDonald, and E. Lagadec, eds. (2011) Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
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2011
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Description
Multi-epoch HST images have been obtained for the pre planetary nebulae
CRL618, CRL2688, and Hen3-1475. Each object shows clear and
idiosyncratic expansion patterns. CRL618 consists of several well
defined fingers with sharp tips. The lengths of the tips have increased
by identical factors, ˜7%, over the course of seven years,
suggesting a common expansion age of 100 years. The corresponding
proper motions range up to ˜400 km s^{-1} assuming a distance of
900 pc. Trailing filaments of starlight-scattering dust expand at a
far lower rate, ˜1-2%, in the same time. The bright lobes of
CRL2688 expand uniformly at a rate of 2.6% in seven years, suggesting a
brief ejection 250 y ago. Surprisingly, the set of concentric and
nearly circular arcs that surround the lobes also expand uniformly, but
at a third of the rate of the lobes. Thus it appears that the arcs were
all formed in a brief event 750 years ago rather than episodically over
several hundred years as is commonly believed. Finally, Hen3-1475 shows
two expanding components. The first consists of a symmetric pair of two
large arcs of dust extending over 5000 AU on opposite sides of the
nucleus that expand radially and uniformly at 2% per decade (assuming a
distance of 5 kpc). This implies speeds at the leading edge of the arcs
as high as 1000 km s^{-1}. The second component is pairs of bright
knots seen best in emission-line images. These move along and through
the dust arcs at even higher proper motions leaving no disturbances in
their wakes. The innermost pair of knots is being launched from the
tips of a pair of narrow emission-line cones that straddle the nuclear
region and whose base seems anchored to the nucleus.