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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