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Mohamed, S.; Podsiadlowski, Ph.; Booth, R.; Maercker, M.; Ramstedt, S.; Vlemmings, W.; Harries, T.; Mackey, J.; Langer, N.; Corradi, R.
Bibliographical reference
Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae VI conference, Proceedings of the conference held 4-8 November, 2013. Edited by C. Morisset, G. Delgado-Inglada and S. Torres-Peimbert. Online at http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/apn6/PROCEEDINGS/, id. #60
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2014
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Description
Symbiotic binaries consist of a cool, evolved mass-losing giant and an
accreting compact companion. As symbiotic nebulae show similar
morphologies to those in planetary nebulae (so much so that it is often
difficult to distinguish between the two), they are ideal laboratories
for understanding the role a binary companion plays in shaping the
circumstellar envelopes in these evolved systems. We will present 3D
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) models of interacting binaries,
e.g. R Aquarii and Mira, and discuss the formation of spiral outflows,
arcs, shells and equatorial density enhancements.We will also discuss
the implications of the former for planetary nebulae, e.g. the Egg
Nebula and Cat's Eye, and the latter for the formation of bipolar
geometries, e.g. M2-9. We also investigate accretion and angular
momentum evolution in symbiotic binaries which may be important to
understand the formation of jets and more episodic mass-loss features we
see in circumstellar envelopes and the orbital characteristics of binary
central stars of planetary nebulae.